Negative interest rates, as an instrument of monetary policy, are regarded by the central authorities as a stimulant for the growth of real economy through: decrease of lending costs, increase of consumption, decrease of volatility and so on. However this policy has a negative influence within...

The economic crisis has stopped the Romanians consumerism momentum. The perspective of job loss, changes in exchange rate or the inflation made many people to be extremely cautious when contract a loan for fear they can not repay it. In this paper we intend a retrospective analysis of housing...

Romanian Abstract: Adeseori, unele decizii financiare ale familiilor, precum cele care privesc împrumuturile, consumul, economisirea sau investiţiile sunt adoptate în moduri care diferă semnificativ de ipotezele finanţelor tradiţionale. Finanţele comportamentale ale familiei încearcă...

As of today any official or informal communication with respect to Europe’s economic future is most of the time accompanied by a unique keyword: „uncertainty”; several factors are at the same time being mentioned: global economy trends, fossil fuels price, Brexit, refugee crisis. With...

This paperwork is focused on European Central Bank activity related to the financial integration and globalization as the most important contemporary phenomena from the monetary global system governance pint of view. The eternal question mark above the recommended dependency degree of national...

The paper aims to evaluate the degree of business cycle synchronization and similarity of economic structures between Romania and the euro zone from the perspective of European Monetary Union (EMU) integration. Despite the fact that the euro adoption can generate benefits for the Romanian...

The global coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has triggered an unprecedented crisis, creating social, political, economic and financial challenges for both Europe and the rest of the world. Faced with all these challenges, governments have implemented ambitious measures to support companies and...

During the last decades, the monetary policy had to face significant changes caused by various processes. This paper explores the challenges induced by the recent global crisis to the central banks policies. We approach some possible solutions to the dramatic consequences of the crisis: the...

The conduct of the monetary policy could be view as a series of decisions in which the objectives and tools are chosen. This paper explores some aspects of the strategic decisions of the monetary policy such as the roles played by central banks and other public authorities, the main constraints...

This paper explores some recent challenges for the inflation targeting. The circumstances are different for the emerging market countries and for the industrialized ones. In many emerging market countries the central banks adopted more or less formally the inflation targeting, in order to gain...