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 approaches the risk management as a decision making process in which the best solution to an exposure is found and implemented. Such a process includes five stages: identifying the risk, assessment of exposure, analysis of the alternatives to deal with the exposure, adopting the...

In the last decades, the use of the exchange rates as nominal anchors to tie down the prices seemed to experience a decline. However, the exchange rates targeting could become a solution for some countries in dealing with the actual circumstances. In this paper we approach some key elements of...

This paper investigates the presence of Gone Fishin’ Effects on the Romanian Capital Market from January 2000 to July 2013. In this analysis we employ daily values of five main indexes of Bucharest Stock Exchange. We use GARCH models to reveal this seasonality not only on indexes returns but...

This book approaches the use of statistical analysis in solving business-oriented problems. We present some quantitative techniques applied in the analysis of some important aspects of business decisions: production, sales, costs and efficiency.

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...

In the framework of the risk management process, after a risk was identified, the exposure was analyzed and the solutions were generated, a decision about the best way to treat the exposure has to be adopted. In this paper we approach some techniques to optimize such a decision. We approach also...

The time series techniques are widely used in the financial analysis. This paper approaches some characteristics of the financial variables that particularize their evolution. It also presents some simple techniques of the time series analysis.

This paper approaches some particularities of the financial variables evolution such as: the financial markets behaviors during bubbles or crisis, the systematic risks and the linkages among the international financial markets. It also presents some factors with significant influence on the...

Forecasting the operating expenses is an important phase of the financial planning for the decision making on entrepreneurship. In this paper we approach some methods used in the prediction of the expenses associated to the raw materials purchase and to wages.