Selected and accredited by the European Council from 24 projects proposed by different countries, Doctoral School of Finance and Banking, part of the Faculty of Finance and Banking, was set up in 1994, as an European Union Centre of Excellence.

Starting from 1998, the Doctoral School has received financing from the World Bank. This collaboration implies not only doctoral conferences and lectures delivered by teachers from foreign universities, but also specialisation stages at partner universities for PhD. and MSc students.

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The Doctoral School offers high quality training in finance and banking, the teaching process being provided for MSc. and PhD. students by mixed teams of Romanian and foreign professors from the partner universities.

The Doctoral School has its own financial and banking IT laboratory, located in the Academy of Economic Studies building. The IT laboratory is equipped with PCs connected in a network, with Internet access and financial and banking software.

The MSc cycle ends with a dissertation that tackles not only theoretical matters but also practical aspects about the Romanian banking and financial system. The dissertation is defended in front of an international commission including Romanian and partner universities professors, in this way the graduates obtaining their marks at international standards.

Florin Bilbiie, member of Doctoral School of Finance and Banking has been awarded "Olga Radzyner" prize  by Oesterreichische Nationalbank for the best research paper from the Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (2000).
 

The following members of our Doctoral School have been awarded scholarships by the UE, participating in a competition organized by ACE Phare (2000):

•  Alina Spiru

•  Cristina Mohora

•  Anamaria Nicolae

•  Ioana Chioveanu

Members of our Doctoral School have been awarded scholarships for doctoral studies:

• Bogdan Negrea - Paris I University (Pantheon-Sorbonne CNRS), France (2000)

• Florin Bilbiie - European Universitary Institute Florence, Italy (2000)

• Anca Dimitriu, University of Reading - ISMA, UK (2001)

• Agrigoroae Bolos Victor - University of Notre Dame, Chicago (2001)

• Mihăescu Flaviu - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2001)

• Vasilescu Cristina, Paris IX, France

• Octavian Ionici, Georgetown University, Washington, USA

• Lazar Emese - University of Reading - ISMA, UK (2002)

• Serban Andra, University of Pittsburgh, USA (2003)

• Gabriel Ionescu, University of Reading, ISMA Centre  (2003)

• Razvan Paşcalău, University of Alabama (2004)