The academic world says that the divorce between economists and politicians became visible during the financial crisis that began in 2008, when the economists were criticised for failing to preview the crisis, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, for the slowness in accompanying the...

The authors review the challenges that the Romanian economy and society had to face in the European and global geoeconomic context. Starting from the perspectives advanced by the international economic fora, the risks the European economy will have to answer through counteracting and general...

The authors present below a synthesis of a broader work, as a result of a 2011-2014 study made by the Institute of National Economy of the Romanian Academy.The authors aim at an analysis of a new paradigm of the post-crisis economy,trying to clarify the issue of the globalisation mechanisms in...

Thinking of what a global currency could be or represent - an idea on which the authors have strong public opinions - the question of the central banks’ role and conduct during the last crisis has become not only complex but a changing one. As regards this latest process, we feel that we...

Thinking of what a global currency could be or represent an idea on which the authors have strong public opinions the question of the central banks’ role and conduct during the last crisis has become not only complex but a changing one. As regards this latest process,we feel that we separate...

The interventions done by central banks in order either to provide liquidity or to help the recovery of economic growth, during the lasting effects of the recent financial crisis, have again brought into the light the question how the monetary policy is serving the best a sustainable growth....

Any decision is eventually the product of a procedure which requires assembling a multitude of primary information, passed through reiterative processes both of organisation and of analysis. The procedures also regard “pushing” these transformed/processed towards preparatory levels only to...

The global financial crisis created new challenges for the states that have joined the European Union in 2004 and 2007, but that are not yet members of the Euro zone; the maintenance of the convergence indicators below the reference values is a real challenge for the new EU member states. This...

De la sfârşitul anului 2005, conform acordului interinstituţional, Uniunea Europeană a lansat un important demers de revedere fundamentală a bugetului comunitar. Demersul a fost determinat nu numai de interesul general valabil de îmbunătăţire a oricărui instrument de lucru, bugetul...

The functionality of the community institutions is supported by the community budget with the aim to accomplish the goals of the community policies agreed at the level of the head of states and governments from the EU member states. The purpose of these policies focuses on the accomplishment of...