The reform process of the National Bank of Romania has started sixteen years ago since the communist regime was eliminated. The perspectives of Romania's EU accession enforced this process and the NBR accounted performances in targeting its objectives. In this study we underline the challenges...

This postdoctoral research aimed to highlight sustainability convergence criteria in the context of financialisation, with impact on the prudential regulator. Based on complex analysis, the research work has revealed that countries in Central and Eastern Europe still face significant...

This study aims to highlight the potential impact of convergence process on the financial stability situation at the level of the European Union. For that purpose, the research proposes the build-up of a financial stability index that envisages to highlight the state of the macro-financial...

This postdoctoral research aimed to highlight sustainability convergence criteria in the context of financialisation, with impact on the prudential regulator. Based on complex analysis, the research work has revealed that countries in Central and Eastern Europe still face significant...

There are evidences that the actual global crisis affected the convergence process in EU. Generally, just new adhered countries were more affected by the actual crisis. Today all forecasts are suffering by uncertainty. Last time, economists, with their methods and models, are invoked for actual...

The study is based on the critical observations that the competitive market forces alone are not able to assure the convergence with the developed countries. These observations are grounded on the results of the computation of the marginal capital rate of return, as well as the real process of...

The main aim of the chapter is to provide the readers with a synthesis of the new international framework of debate dedicated to the topics of intangible assets and intellectual capital. Considering the topics of the whole book, this chapter is focussed on the role played by intangible assets...

The study is based on the critical observations that competitive market forces alone are not able to assure convergence with the developed countries. These observations are grounded on the results of the computation of the marginal rate of return to capital (which contradict the neoclassical...

In modern times, when progress is made through knowledge and knowledge is predominantly produced/used, industrial property rights, their protection and related specialized institutions play a stimulating role. Therefore, this paper presents first the requirements for stimulating scientific and...

This volume comprises several studies and papers published in the last decades. They have been selected and ranged so that to provide a minimum of coherence concerning the phases which Romania has crossed in her way to the advanced socio-economic system of European type: transition to the market...