The reform process of the National Bank of Romania has started sixteen years ago since the communist regime was eliminated. The perspectives of Romania's EU accession enforced this process and the NBR accounted performances in targeting its objectives. In this study we underline the challenges...

The paper provides an analysis of central bank legislation in eight Southeastern European (SEE) countries. For this purpose, the paper uses the ECB classification and examines functional, institutional, personal and financial independence. Moreover, the paper sheds some light on the practical...

The paper provides an analysis of central bank legislation in eight Southeastern European (SEE) countries. For this purpose, the paper uses the ECB classification and examines functional, institutional, personal and financial independence. Moreover, the paper sheds some light on the practical...

Because the European Central Bank's current goal is to achieve stable prices, some EU countries have adopted direct inflation control as a target of financial policy. Several other countries, however, have adopted other targets, such as money supply targeting, exchange rate targeting, and other...

The crisis since August 2007 provides an opportunity to observe the workings of good governance institutions under an extreme stress test and in radically different political settings. Institutions such as independent central banks, fiscal rules and regulatory oversight of public finances were...

Because the European Central Bank's current goal is to achieve stable prices, some EU countries have adopted direct inflation control as a target of financial policy. Several other countries, however, have adopted other targets, such as money supply targeting, exchange rate targeting, and other...

The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the EU extended the freedom of movement to workers from the twelve new member states mainly from Central Eastern Europe. This study summarizes and comparatively evaluates what we know about mobility in an enlarged Europe to date. The pre-enlargement fears of...

The European Union (EU) represents a large and highly integrated bloc which contributed 19.4% of global GDP and over 30% of global exports in 2012. As of July 1, 2013 it consists of 28 member states. All of them belong to the customs union and the Single European Market (SEM) in which most...

In this article, we try to answer the question of whether the membership in the European Union contributed to the acceleration of economic growth of the 11 Central and Eastern European countries (CEE-11), including their real convergence to the development level of Western Europe (EU-15). In the...

The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the EU extended the freedom of movement to workers from the twelve new member states mainly from Central Eastern Europe. This study summarizes and comparatively evaluates what we know about mobility in an enlarged Europe to date. The pre-enlargement fears of...