This year’s laureates of the Nobel Prize for Economics are Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson, three authors renowned for their studies on institutions and the impact of institutional factors on economic prosperity. Their most representative work is Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (2012), which

Receiving the vote of confidence and being appointed as Vice Governor of the National Bank of Romania is an honour, and it thus opens a new chapter of commitment and responsibility, both professionally and institutionally. My professional journey, spanning over 25 years in the academic and scientific fields, and focused on key areas of