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.

This paperwork is focused on European Central Bank activity related to the financial integration and globalization as the most important contemporary phenomena from the monetary global system governance pint of view. The eternal question mark above the recommended dependency degree of national...

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 conduct of the monetary policy could be view as a series of decisions in which the objectives and tools are chosen. This paper explores some aspects of the strategic decisions of the monetary policy such as the roles played by central banks and other public authorities, the main constraints...

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...

Negative interest rates, as an instrument of monetary policy, are regarded by the central authorities as a stimulant for the growth of real economy through: decrease of lending costs, increase of consumption, decrease of volatility and so on. However this policy has a negative influence within...

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...

Toate ţările membre ale Uniunii Europene trebuie să asigure armonizarea instrumentelor de politică monetară utilizate cu cele ale Băncii Centrale Europene. Analizând comparativ instrumentele de politică monetară ale Băncii Naţionale a Românei şi pe cele ale Băncii Centrale...

Romanian Abstract: Această lucrare studiază unele schimbări importante intervenite în politica monetară începând cu sfârşitul secolului trecut. Sunt abordate principalele procese care au cauzat aceste schimbări: dezvoltarea inovaţiilor financiare, liberalizarea pieţelor financiare,...

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...