The study is based on the critical observations that competitive market forces alone are not able to assure convergence … competitive market virtues, the EU's economic policy is realistic as it is based on the harmonisation of the market forces with an …

Romania and the EU as soon as possible cannot be achieved exclusively through market forces, since they rather tend to cause …

-economic system of European type: transition to the market economy, accession to the EU, the economic convergence in the three …, difficulties and solutions adopted for building-up the market economy by a state being in a profound transformation from weak … transition institutions towards hard democratic institutions. Because the transition to the market economy and the association of …

attributes most of the productivity slowdown of the 1970s to the consumption-goods sector; it suggests that a slowdown in the … rates of total factor productivity in distinct consumption- and investmentgoods- producing technologies. This model … investment-goods sector occurred later and was much less persistent. Against this broader backdrop, the model interprets the more …

What are the effects on the labor market and aggregate income of frictions that restrict women's labor decisions that … the Mexican data. Finally, I use the ENOE to calibrate the model and estimate gender-based frictions in the labor market …