AN ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE ACTIVITIES OF CREDIT INSTITUTIONS FROM THE ROMANIAN BANKING SYSTEM.

Beginning with the last quarter of the XIXth century, coal mining has contributed to the transformation of the Jiu Valley into an important industrial centre. Financing this activity, like the financing of other economic and social activities complementary or not to mining, will impose the creation and functioning of banking and credit institutions, created through the initiative and monetary support of small entrepreneurs and other economic entities. In our study we will attempt to describe these credit institutions and the way in which they would fit within the Romanian banking system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]