This article argues that the causes of the crisis in Romania and other new EU member states were different from those affecting Western Europe or the US. The main argument of this paper is that bad domestic monetary, fiscal and regulatory policies were the real crisis generators, while exogenous...

This paper deals with convergence effects of regional trade agreements. The international literature presents three main motifs to support free trade agreements: stabilisation, avoidance of the hub-and-spoke trade structure, and the training ground argument. This paper analyses Romania's...

1. The Phillips Curve: what went wrong -- 2. An alternative theory of consumption -- 3. The post-crisis Phillips Curve: cumulative wage gap vs. inflation gap -- 4. Empirical evidence -- 5. Policy implications.

Purpose – This chapter investigates the effect of capital requirement regulations, both national and those issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, on banks’ interest rate margins between loans and deposits. Higher capital requirements lead to higher margins, as banks pass this...

Over the past few decades, European multinational enterprises (MNEs) have been faced with a rapidly changing and difficult-to-predict international policy environment. Waves of privatisation, liberalisation and deregulation have alternated with periods of re regulation and institutional...

Purpose – The main research question of this contribution is whether local market concentration influences R&D and innovation activities of foreign affiliates of transnational companies. Methodology/approach – We focus on transition economies and use discriminant function analysis to...