Iustina Alina BOITAN is a professor, PhD at the Department of Money and Banking of the Faculty of Finance and Banking (FABBV) within the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. She graduated from the bachelor’s degree program in Finance and Banking in 2006, the master’s degree program in Banking Systems Management in 2008, and in 2011 she obtained the PhD degree in Finance with the thesis entitled Early Warning Systems and Their Role in Anticipating Banking Crises. In 2014-2015 she conducted post-doctoral research on the topic Sustainable Financial Institutions – Performance Indicators and Contributions to the Real Economy. In 2021 she obtained the habilitation and the status of doctoral supervisor of the Doctoral School – Finance with the habilitation thesis Empirical Approaches to the Financial Ecosystem and the Socio-Economic Framework. Conventional and sustainable coordinates. Academically, the subjects taught are: Banking products and services, Banking accounting, Banking regulations and microprudential supervision. The research directions addressed so far are diverse, complementary, and topical. In summary, it has been investigated aspects related to: A) Financial-banking sector: financial regulation and supervision; early warning instruments; the activity of various types of financial intermediaries (credit institutions, credit cooperatives, ethical/sustainable banks, national promotional banks); determinants of trust in the banking sector; corporate governance of credit institutions; opportunities for the financial market to implement sustainability criteria; sustainable financial products; ESG/climate risks and the banking sector. B) Bank-sovereign interaction: involvement of the banking system in financing public debt; C) Public policies: analysis of fiscal risks during the pandemic; management of sovereign debt in the context of climate risks; impact of climate factors on the yield of government bonds; performance assessment of green budgeting policies. D) Others: SDGs; financial and social inclusion; development of a quality of life barometer, assessment of economic sentiment. The most representative articles published in WOS/Scopus indexed journals are: The Sovereign-Bank Nexus in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak—Evidence from EU Member States (Risks vol. 9, issue 5/2021, coauthor); Growing fiscal risk in European Union resulting from government contingent liabilities in the pandemic crisis – assessment and policy recommendations (Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, 2021, coauthor); Sovereign debt management in the face of climate liabilities: Perspective of European Union member states (Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, 2022, coauthor); Climate change and the pricing of sovereign debt: Insights from European markets (Research in International Business and Finance, Volume 62, December 2022, coauthor); How do FinTech companies contribute to the achievement of SDGs? Insights from case studies (Research in International Business and Finance, vol. 66/2023); Prospects for Joining the Euro Area: New Evidence through the Lens of the Uncovered Interest Parity Approach (Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research, Issue 4/2023, coauthor); Fiscal sustainability in times of climate challenges: a multidimensional approach of the interlinkages between climate change and sovereign debt (Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Volume 65, December 2023, author); Central banks and climate risks: where we are and where we are going? (International Review of Economics and Finance, 92/2024, coauthor); Climate Risk Impact on Treasury Securities Pricing: Global and Long-term Perspectives (International Review of Financial Analysis, vol. 103/2025, coauthor); Exploring the landscape of financial inclusion through the lens of financial technologies: A review (Finance Research Letters, vol. 72/ 2025, coauthor). Regarding the publication of specialized books, she has published seven books with domestic and foreign publishers, and over 12 book chapters in monographs edited by publishers such as Emerald Publishing, Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, and IGI Global. She holds the position of reviewer for a series of specialized journals indexed in prestigious databases (WoS/SCOPUS), such as: Finance Research Letters, Research in International Business and Finance, International Review of Economics and Finance, Empirica, Journal of Applied Statistics, Financial Innovation, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Journal of Risk and Financial Management, Economics and Business Review, Cogent Economics & Finance, Technological and Economic Development of Economy, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Climate and Development, Climate policy.
