In this paper we analyse what caused the financial crisis of 2008-2009, how its aftermath lead, indirectly and among others, to a recently escalated crisis in the Euro zone and which would be the effects and solutions of this new economic reality. We must admit the fact that, economically...

In the absence of appropriate remedial measures, financial instability can cause the collapse of even more financial institutions, problems in the financial system infrastructure and it can ultimately affect all the financial markets. The contagion effect threats to spread internationally and it...

The aim of the present paper is to highlight the characteristics of corporate governance structures in three main areas: Europe, USA and Latin America. This paper offers an overview of the common elements and divergent points of the corporate governance models following the particularities of...

The process of economic integration between Romania and the Euro area has supposed the emphasis both of the trade and the financial linkages between these economies, especially during the period 2003-2008. Prior to the economic crisis, the foreign financial flows in have generated a fast...

Recent studies show that cash holdings cannot be considered a mere byproduct of corporate financial decision making but is an integral part of the explicit or implicit risk management policies of firms. This paper first gives an overview of the corporate finance literature from the past few...

This paper sheds light on the financial turmoil in the insurance sector from a Belgian supervisory perspective.3 An assessment is made of the main difficulties encountered by insurers and their supervisors during the development and acceleration of the financial crisis. Particular attention is...

While most studies analysing in great detail the origins of the current financial crisis concentrate on banks, little attention has been given to the mechanisms and role of shadow banking. In this contribution the role of money market funds, commercial paper and securitization in the growth of...

We examine time-varying stock market comovements in Central Europe employing the asymmetric dynamic conditional correlation multivariate GARCH model. Using daily data from 2001 to 2011, we find that the correlations among stock markets in Central Europe and between Central Europe vis–à–vis...

This paper analyses the spread of the sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone. To this end we employ three approaches. The first approach employs univariate autoregressive models. These allow the identification of shocks to government bond yields in Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain and...

It is obvious that the bankers of this world have failed miserably. Top managers have failed to know what was going on in their organization (or worse). At lower levels of bank the employees have failed to realize that they were gambling with other people’s money. Professionally and morally...