The financial services sectors of Romania and Estonia moved towards privatization in sharply contrasting manners. For a … long time Romania's enthusiasm for its 1998 promise to the IMF to privatize its leading banks was only a commitment on … paper; few steps were made towards its fulfillment. By contrast, Estonia's experience of privatization was generally a …

The financial services sectors of Romania and Estonia moved towards privatization in sharply contrasting manners. For a … long time Romania's enthusiasm for its 1998 promise to the IMF to privatize its leading banks was only a commitment on … paper; few steps were made towards its fulfillment. By contrast, Estonia's experience of privatization was generally a …

In Romania, as in many Central and Eastern Europe countries, during the communist regime all the banks were owned by … by state. From the seven state-owned banks that activated in the 1990s in Romania, one had to be closed, four were …

SAR, Korea, Malaysia, Poland, and Romania. Insights include: rapid growth in high-LTV loans with long maturities or in the …

financial conditions. For identification, we exploit the comprehensive credit register containing all bank loans to individuals … in Romania, a small open economy subject to external shocks, and the period 2004-2012, which covers a full boom … driver of financial crises, to our knowledge this is the first paper that employs a household credit register to study …

services ; the correlation between the bank's market share and the number of complaints registered by it, using the ranks …’ financial literacy; reduce information asymmetry and stimulate competition in the banking sector; increase consumers’ trust in … the financial sector; generate beneficial and sustainable effects . …

financial conditions. For identification, we exploit the comprehensive credit register containing all bank loans to individuals … in Romania, a small open economy subject to external shocks, and the period 2004-2012, which covers a full boom … driver of financial crises, to our knowledge this is the first paper that employs a household credit register to study …

study goes on to look at the experiences in Poland, Romania and Hungary. The choice is based on the fact that all three …

Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has raised the role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF, Fund) as a lender of last … resort. Given that Romania, as well, has turned to the IMF to cushion the impact of the GFC, the article aims to explore … topical relations between Romania and the IMF: by revealing the sway of the IMF policies on the national economy. In order to …