This study is meant to underline some contemporary and stringent global problems, related to the international monetary system area and its crises. In the last 3 decades, this subsystem of global economy becomes the most important and the most instable as well. The last contagious monetary or...

The paper aims to evaluate the degree of business cycle synchronization and similarity of economic structures between Romania and the euro zone from the perspective of European Monetary Union (EMU) integration. Despite the fact that the euro adoption can generate benefits for the Romanian...

During the last decades, the monetary policy had to face significant changes caused by various processes. This paper explores the challenges induced by the recent global crisis to the central banks policies. We approach some possible solutions to the dramatic consequences of the crisis: the...

The economic integration process is a current widely spared process in the world economy. The necessity of collaboration between countries on economic, politic and social plans is being implemented by nations through a raising number of commercial agreements for example during the last decades....

This paper assesses the level of readiness of Romania to adopt euro, based on nominal and real convergence criteria evaluation. We used the optimal currency area criteria in order to assess the real convergence process in Romania. The main conclusion of the paper is that more progress is...

Over viewing the most recently evolutions throughout global economy, this study conceive that the collateral effects of economical globalization and market integration, represents the main issues debated in specialized professional or political circles. The unanimous impression underlines the...

The international organizations acting at world-wide scale seems unable to manage the multitude of rising problems due to the accelerated globalization and of the fast geopolitics’ shift. The world is facing growing imbalances in international trade and financial flows, deepening of social...

This paper aims to review existing literature on the endogenous effects of monetary integration: whether sharing a single currency may set in motion forces bringing countries closer together. The first part is a review of significant paper in the vast literature on the endogeneity of optimum...

The aim of this paper is to analyze whether the Euro zone is an optimal currency area. The analysis takes into consideration the existing literature and the empirical data for several criteria of the optimum currency area theory. Since the introduction of the euro there have been significant...

The “new” economy seems to be vulnerable to cyclical shocks that increased in magnitude and induced higher volatilities on the markets. The role assumed by state in this equation of markets’ equilibrium significantly increased. The causes of current crisis of modern economies are strongly...