This thesis, divided into four chapters, proposes to study certain monetary and financial dynamics, to explain the challenges facing regulators and to discuss potential and actual regulators interventions. The first chapter proposes a new measure of financial cycles, based on Singular Spectrum Analysis. The chapter shows that this method is more effective in detecting systemic banking crises in advance, especially in exercises that are very close to the real situations of regulators. The second chapter studies the dynamics of synchronization between domestic financial cycles in the euro area. It shows that long-term dynamics make a common stabilization policy impossible. The third chapter evaluates quantitative easing (QE) using a new type ...