The dissertation discusses the theoretical and methodological bases for research the financial and economic security in the conditions of institutional development of the global financial system, reveals improved conceptual approaches to an estimation the financial security of the country, alongside, it substantiates the directions of its strengthening. Based on the generalization of the conceptual and categorical apparatus, it is proposed to define financial and economic security as such a state of the national economy, it is proposed to define the financial and economic security as a state of the national economy that characterized by macroeconomic and macrofinancial stability, public finances sustainability, investment capacity, allows to effectively counter threats to the national interests and sovereignty, including financial, to maintain the competitiveness in world markets for goods and services, research and development, investment and innovation.
The features of modernization of the institutional structure of international finance are related to increasing global capital and violation of financial sovereignty due to its penetration into national economies, internationalization of industrial and financial corporations, expanding virtual capital, especially derivatives, changing the role of developing countries. strengthening the supranational regulation of financial and credit markets, coordinating the activities of international institutions and regional unions to monitor the sources and channels of risk in certain sectors or national economies. The methodology of assessing the budget security is improved through the introduction of European experience by implementing fiscal sustainability indicators, which takes long-, medium- and short-term risk indicators: short-term objectives are assessed using indicator S0 (early detection of ‘fiscal stress’), S1 (risk of ‘fiscal gap’), S2 (fiscal risks related to an ageing population). The classification of internal threats to the economic and financial security of Ukraine has been improved, which includes threats determined: instability of public finances due to excessive budget deficit and debt burden, deformation of the banking system, deepening technological backwardness of industry, criminalization of the real economy and financial sector, institutional inability of public administration authorities, their loss of social trust.
