The sustainable growth of economic competitiveness as a whole and of industry, in particular, is of paramount importance for Romania. A look at the literature reveals that although there is no consensus in defining and measuring competitiveness, many studies focus on competitiveness i) in a...

Article addresses the issue of sizing the underground economy by recognized methods in the literature based on empirical data provided by official statistics in Romania. The monetary method to assess non-accounted economy dynamics studies to date has defined two types of measurements in terms of...

In recent years, territorial (spatial) development concepts in relation to industrial development are often raised as an issue that needs to be considered by those who have this authority. The increased power of regions, given by Lisbon Agenda, highlighted the existing links between development...

This communication aims briefly describing Romanian industry and corresponding Government policy about in this vicinity of these two decades. Or, this is a real mixture between old and obsolete aspects and new imperatives of restructuring. The last’s basing concepts were really unknown around...

In this paper we discuss the credit policy and how it affected the macroeconomic dynamics in Romania. We estimate a regression on quarterly data in which economic growth is the dependant variable and foreign direct investments and domestic credit are the explanatory variable. We found...