Why were some banks heavily affected by mortgage crises, while others barely? Why were some banking sectors dominated by “originate and distribute” model, while others were trading? Why did some banks decide not to follow the others, and preferred to stay traditional banks? How the models...

First externalities risk due to the size of the companies or the principle that large companies are also at risk of bankruptcy (too big to fail) are examined. The problem is illustrated by a case in which extreme risks with negative consequences for savers and investors are taken. If we...

Global financial regulators are currently reflecting on the nature of the insurance business. Specifically, they are trying to classify insurance into ‘traditional’ and ‘non-traditional’ activities, and to distinguish them from ‘non-insurance’ activities. Subsequently, they will seek...

For Afghanistan, the dual prospect of declining donor support and high ongoing security spending over the medium term keeps its government budget tight. This paper uses a general equilibrium model to capture the security–development trade-off facing the government in its effort to...

We develop a theory of financial intermediary leverage cycles in the context of a dynamic model of the macroeconomy. The interaction between a production sector, a financial intermediation sector, and a household sector gives rise to amplification of fundamental shocks that affect real economic...

The aim of this paper is to quantify and analyse the meanings of 'shall' in point of deontic and epistemic values in a corpus of economics texts made up of financial issues of the Sectorial Operational Programme Human Resources Development 2007–2013–October 2007: Strategy, Financial Plan,...

The Basel II implementation supposes a series of important challenges both for the credit institutions – the adjusting of the risk management and of the data processing system, the training of the personnel, the obtaining of the data bases etc. – and also for the National Bank of Romania –...

Financial globalization doesn’t represent a new phenomenon, but the size and speed which phenomenon knows is without any precedent. The financial system becomes more efficient as a direct result of globalization and innovation, but not necessarly more capable to absorb the shocks. Concerning...

The Romanian public railway transportation forms, by his nature, a strategic sector of national interest. It represents a public service, important for the society; it contributes to the free traffic, solving some major economic concerns of people’s transportation or to the transportation of...