The last decade has witnessed the development of a vast literature devoted to the study of several phenomena like banking crises or episodes of vulnerability and distress, characterized by inadequate capitalization, impairment of the asset quality and of the credit institutions' rating. The...

The element of absolute novelty brought about by the « Basel II » agreement consists in the multiple approaches that can be used by banks when calculating the capital requirements for loan and operational risk. By implementing the solutions offered by “Basel II”, the Romanian...

The qualifying of supervision as “prudential” is used to differentiate it from other forms of supervision, which regards issues related to banking consumer protection. In order to achieve its goal, prudential supervision needs relevant information, provided mostly by the credit institutions...

Data Envelopment Analysis method allows both the measurement of the relative efficiency of an homogenous group of credit institutions, and the identification of those banking activity’s components generating a state of inefficiency. The present study focuses on this last issue, by proposing an...

One of the consequences of the financial liberalization process is the entry of new competitors in the banking system, increasing the risk taking attitude of credit institutions whose aim is to gain a substantial remuneration and to maintain/increase the market share. In this context, an...

The new own funds adequacy device, officialy named “ International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards”, describes the most important benchmark framework for micro-prudential supervision at the moment. The publication of the final text in June 2004, after five years of...

This study examines the similarities between the current crisis and other systemic crises from the past. The purpose of our research is to discover whether previously used crisis management policies can constitute a referential in choosing the most effective policies for the management of the...

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...

Basel III revealed new aspects to be considered in terms of risk management and supervision of banking systems. Banks may use internal models to determine minimum capital requirements imposed by new regulations to be adopted gradually in the period 2013-2019. In this context, the implementation...

In light of adopting the euro in the near future, it is important to asses to which extent the Romanian business cycle evolves in a similar fashion with that of the euro zone. The present study is an empirical investigation of the degree of business cycle synchronization between Romania and the...