This paper investigates the exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) into import prices, producer prices and several different measures of consumer price indices for the Romanian economy. In order to determine the size and describe the dynamics in ERPT, the paper employs an array of econometric methods...

Real Gross Domestic Product is usually computed at quarterly intervals, which makes it uncomfortable to introduce into different types of macroeconomic models, that usually make use of higher frequency data (monthly, weekly) such as inflation, interest and unemployment. Analysts and decision...

The impact of trade and financial openness can be measured by the sensitivity of the first moment of the economic growth. Taking into account the domestic conditions, this paper provides an empirical evaluation of the impact of globalization on the economic growth in the Eastern Europe. The data...

The fundamental purpose of this paper is to unravel the way price discovery works in the Romanian markets and at the same time explain its most obvious mechanisms. This is an aid for traders that use both markets (cash and futures) but at the same time it is a relevant input when trying to...

The paper provides potential output and output gap estimates for the Romanian economy in the period 1998 - 2008. Our approach consists in combining the structural method of the production function with several non-structural statistical detrending methods: Hodrick-Prescott, Kalman, band-pass,...