Abstract. The scope of this paper is to highlight the Romanian strategy towards the euro adoption. We structured our article on sections that cover four main research directions. The first one illustrates the interlinkages between nominal and real convergence; the second presents a comparative...

The aim of the present paper is to highlight the degree of European stock market integration. We structured our research on two sections obeying the following order: the first one presents some considerations of the academic literature studying the field and the second analyses the main...

The paper is focusing on the world financial framework deterioration, as an adverse cost of the accelerated globalization of international goods & capital flows. The inclining of world monetary axis towards East by the accumulation of huge international reserves (in a few Asian countries) in...

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 aim of this paper is to illustrate the general implications of single monetary policy in sustaining European financial integration. Our study is structured on two main sections; the first one presents the importance of money market integration for the common policy and the seconds analyses...

The scope of the present paper is to point out the general relevant European policy initiatives designed to sustain financial integration within the Economic and Monetary Union((EMU) member states. We structured our research on two chapters, as follows: the first one studies the main barriers...