In this issue are included scientific articles which debate problems from social science fields: Romanian-Russian relations, regional cooperation, nuclear assurance, east Asia, Turkish-Israel relations, European migration, Transnistrian conflict, steel mill arcelormittal, running at high speeds,...

Considering the financial theory based on cost-of-carry model, a futures contract price is always influenced by the spot price of its underlying asset, as long as the futures price is determined as the sum of the underlying asset's spot price and its cost of carrying or storing. The aim of this...

The importance of studying the futures markets and the relationship between spot and futures prices is given by the possibility that futures contracts offer in order to reduce particular risks. The financial theory presents the relationships between spot and futures prices in the framework of...

As a basic component of modern society, the taxation should combine the main objective for the public authority, to ensure most of the resources necessary to carry out state functions, with targets at least as important on the country's economic development, supporting social issues, respecting...

In this study we develop a financial performance aggregate index (FPAI) for modelling the relationship between fiscal policy and financial performances. There are seven variables used to compose the index, that specifically reflect the influence of fiscal, financial, and social policies on the...

The dynamic of energy prices influences the entire economic activity, both at macro and micro level. Unlike other economic goods price determination, based specially on offer-demand relationship, the energy price determination is strongly influenced by the taxation policy and political factor,...

In a chaotic and confusing place as world of investing is, the practitioners, who operate on markets every day, have continuously searched to forecast properly the market movements. More minded to financial speculations, practitioners analyse financial markets looking for potential weaknesses of...

During the last decades many financial analysts, either theorists or practitioners, have dedicated their studies to the interactions between different financial sectors. The results of these researches confirm that commodities, bonds and stock markets are closely related, therefore a thorough...