Monetary policy should be guided by macroeconomic models with limited nominal rigidity – ‘New Classical’ or even for some issues just plain Classical (i.e. with no nominal rigidity at all) models are perfectly adequate for understanding various aspects of the economy that have previously...

The monetary policy decision, as any other decision, is the product of a procedure assembling a lot of primary information, but also what type of other ingredients contribute finally to a certain monetary policy decision.

The purpose of the paper is to present an efficient instrument for simulation and research of inflation and its determinants in Romania, with a focus on the short-term impact of changes in money, foreign exchange and wage policies and controlled prices as well as the impact of external shocks as...

Using the most important criteria that should be taken into account when a monetary policy strategy is changed, this paper assess the opportunity of changing the status quo of the monetary policy in Romania with the inflation targeting monetary policy framework in 2005. The paper identifies the...

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...

This paper explores some recent challenges for the inflation targeting. The circumstances are different for the emerging market countries and for the industrialized ones. In many emerging market countries the central banks adopted more or less formally the inflation targeting, in order to gain...

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...

Romanian Abstract: Această lucrare abordează câteva din provocările recente ale ţintirii inflaţiei. Circumstanţele sunt diferite pentru ţările în curs de dezvoltare faţă de cele dezvoltate. În multe dintre ţările în curs de dezvoltare băncile centrale au adoptat ţintirea...

Prezenta lucrare abordează un segment al problematicii complexe cu privire la procesul de luare a deciziilor. Odată cu dezvoltarea tehnologiilor informațioanle s-au dezvoltat și implementat sistemele suport de decizie (DSS) care au devenit din ce în ce mai performante și au fost...

Romanian Abstract: Uniunea Europeană şi Piaţa sa unică au generat în ultimii 50 de ani noioportunităţi pentru companiile europene, care şi-au îmbunătăţit competitivitatea internă şiinternaţională, au creat noi locuri de muncă şi au oferit consumatorilor europeni...