In their traditional function, commercial banks engage in recourse loan sales while evaluating clients' creditworthiness and assuming risk. However, banks face regulatory constraints that prevent them from fully exploiting this activity. Loan sales with recourse are treated as deposits, and...

This paper investigates the macroeconomic and bank-specific determinants of nonperforming loans in Romania and selected Central and Eastern European countries. Using a combination of econometric approaches, the study employs fixed-effects panel regressions for 18 Romanian banks over the period...

This paper investigates the presence and timing of explosive price dynamics in major listed real estate markets over the period 04 January 2011 - 11 February 2026. The analysis focuses on four benchmark indices: the FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Europe Index, the FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index...

This paper analyses the macroeconomic differences between the Nordic countries (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland) and the Anglo-Saxon countries (USA, UK, Canada, and Australia), focusing on the evolution of GDP, the policy rate, and inflation. Furthermore, financial market performance was...

Financial risk management is increasingly central to fiscal policy in volatile and highly open economies. This paper assesses the fiscal risk management system of the Republic of Moldova using a SWOT framework complemented by a TOWS strategy matrix (SO, ST, WO, WT). The analysis relies on...

This study explores the relationship between geopolitical risk and fiscal-budgetary stability of countries, focusing on how external instability impacts the dynamics of the budget deficit. Using a dynamic System GMM (Arellano-Bover/Blundell-Bond) model on a panel dataset of 25 OECD member...

This study analyses income dynamics and economic vulnerability in the Republic of Moldova between 2019 and 2023, using data on income and expenditures from the Household Budget Survey conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics. The findings reveal significant socio-demographic disparities,...

This paper investigates the existence of the relationship between risk management (RM) and the financial performance of Georgian manufacturing firms. By looking into risk management information disclosures of manufacturing companies in Georgia for the year 2021, seven factors were studied to...

The role of research and development (R&D) as a main foundation of innovation, productivity improvement, and a key element for national competitive advantage in the global economy is well established. This study aims to examine the relationship between R&D investment and economic growth through...

This paper analyses the impact of various macroeconomic shocks - including aggregate demand, supply, monetary policy, real exchange rate, and budget deficit deviation shocks - on Romania's economy using a VAR model with Bayesian inference. The study captures the period following the adoption of...