After 3 years of collapse, foreign direct investments (FDI) have reached a minimum level of the last 9 years, in 2011, meaning 1, 94 billion Euros, below the 2003 level. In the first 10 months of 2012, foreign direct investments have reached a level of 1,27 billion Euros, surpassing the similar...

This study was conducted to measure the relationship between job stress and employee health. A survey method was employed to collect self-administered questionnaires from employees in established universities in Sarawak, Malaysia. The outcomes of SmartPLS path model revealed three important...

Increased competition in domestic and foreign markets has made managers to identify their costs structure and behavior better. Cost behavior is a model based on which costs response to changes in level of activity. Having invented stickiness of costs model by Anderson and Janakiraman (2003),...

In the present study an attempt has been made to know about the role of microcredit in income generating activities of women and its impact on their socio-economic empowerment. The target population of the present study was those women who had availed microcredit facilities from some microcredit...

This paper exposes an evaluation of the bilateral exchange rate developments of the US dollar against the euro, the Japanese yen and the Chinese yuan/renminbi and surveys the nominal and real effective exchange rates trends of such currencies over the period 1994-2012. It also briefly reviews...

The identification of central banks (CBs) behavior in setting interest rates may give a conclusive image on both the objectives and on their prioritization. A standard approach in this respect is the estimation of a CB reaction function as a Taylor rule. Since the formulation of the original...

This paper focuses on identifying the major financial indicators or ratios that play a crucial role in determining the prices of the securities. Also the volatility of the prices of securities on the basis of previous performance of the companies will help us to understand the applicability of...

This paper presents an example of price discrimination on the market for marijuana in the northern and western Czech Republic in 2006. It is based on a model of a multifirm market with emphasis on the existence of two types of firms and two qualities of a good. It is shown that in the case of a...

Over 20 years of market economy in Romania showed that the State is unable to manage companies in which it is a stockholder (wholly or majority). This situation is proven by the large amount of arrears in the general consolidated budget as well as the acceptance of significant annual losses for...

The supply activity is the one that is essential in creating quality outputs within an enterprise, having at the same time the ability to make savings, as long as it is done by specialists or closely supervised by them, because of the business components: choosing the materials that will be used...