100 years of academic economic and social research in Romania -- Is basic scientific research still a priority in Romania -- Exploring the recent inflationary pressure. Features and challenges for central banks -- Fiscal consolidation in Eurozone countries -- BRICS+ and the New International...

The economic crisis triggered by the coronavirus exposed the gaps in the European Monetary Union (EMU) governance, creating fears to repeat the sovereign debt crisis. In view of the magnitude of the crisis and the financial interdependence inside that union, strong policy coordination and...

This paper addresses a number of phenomena that characterize the euro area, one of them being the contagion effect. This is one of the mechanisms by which financial instability becomes so widespread that the crisis reached global dimensions. The following lines argue that contagion plays a...