Emerging research on monetary policy, banking, and financial markets

Section 1. Measuring effectiveness and efficiency of banking systems. Chapter 1. Determinants of bank cost efficiency in transition economies: evidence for Latin America, central and eastern Europe, and South-East Asia 
 Chapter 2. The relationship between bank efficiency and risk and productivity patterns in the Romanian banking system 
 Chapter 3. Efficiency in cooperative banks and savings banks: a stochastic frontier approach 
 Chapter 4. Financial nexus: efficiency and soundness in banking and capital markets --
Section 2. The transmission mechanism of monetary policy: dynamics and perspectives. Chapter 5. Monetary policy transmission mechanism in Romania over the period 2001 to 2012: a BVAR analysis 
 Chapter 6. Analysis of the monetary policy dynamics in Romania using a structural vector autoregressive model 
 Chapter 7. Inflation inertia and inflation persistence in Romania using a DSGE approach --
Section 3. Understanding financial market behavior: empirical case studies. Chapter 8. Testing weak-form efficiency and long-term causality of the emerging capital markets in Romania, India, Poland, and Hungary 
 Chapter 9. Modeling and estimating long-term volatility of stock markets in Romania, Poland, Greece, and USA 
 Chapter 10. Analyzing long-term dynamic causal linkages and financial integration between the capital markets in Romania and Hungary 
 Chapter 11. Estimating Long-term volatility on national stock exchange of India 
 Chapter 12. Investigating international causal linkages between latin European Stock markets in terms of global financial crisis: a case study for Romania, Spain, and Italy 
 Chapter 13. Modeling sp bombay stock exchange BANKEX index volatility patterns using GARCH model 
 Chapter 14. Investigating causal linkages between international stock markets in Hungary and Austria in terms of economic globalization 
 Chapter 15. Analyzing dynamic causal linkages between developed stock markets of Spain and Canada 
 Chapter 16. The global implications of financial contagion in developed capital markets: evidence for USA, France, UK, and Germany 
 Chapter 17. Investigating Long-term behavior of Milan Stock exchange (Italy).