Worldwide governments perform considerable financial efforts to support financial sector and the re-launch of lending. The mechanisms vary from the guarantee and purchase of troubled assets till injecting liquidity, by buying securities issued in order to increase financial institutions' equity....

The current financial crisis has reopened debate on the need to improve the regulatory and supervisory framework, both internationally and throughout Europe and led to calls for action from the authorities, aimed, on one hand, to strengthen supervision on financial institutions and, on the other...

Our study aimed to assess the degree of heterogeneity of the macroeconomic framework of the 27 EU member countries, against the background of turmoil manifested in the international financial markets. In this regard, we applied a hierarchical cluster analysis technique, for two moments of time,...

The current financial crisis is not a singular event in the history of crisis episodes. The essential difference between past episodes of financial turmoil and the actual crisis is the unprecedented severity, the pace of contagion and its global size. Financial markets have been seriously...

In this paper we proposed an analysis of the financial crisis impact on the procedures for management of loan portfolios in several banking systems. Despite ample liquidity injection programs implemented by major central banks and government actions, credit risk remains a key challenge of the...

The current financial crisis marked the end of a period characterized by a profit rush and an ascending trend of taking risks. In order to diminish its effects, central banks and governments made a prompt and joint intervention which resulted in urgent measures to re-establish the trust in the...