The academic world says that the divorce between economists and politicians became visible during the financial crisis that began in 2008, when the economists were criticised for failing to preview the crisis, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, for the slowness in accompanying the...

The authors review the challenges that the Romanian economy and society had to face in the European and global geoeconomic context. Starting from the perspectives advanced by the international economic fora, the risks the European economy will have to answer through counteracting and general...

The global financial crisis created new challenges for the states that have joined the European Union in 2004 and 2007, but that are not yet members of the Euro zone; the maintenance of the convergence indicators below the reference values is a real challenge for the new EU member states. This...

This article is a result of the usual debates taking place within our research centre, being conducted by the research team that has been dealing for several years with the adoption of the euro by the new member states of the European Union (EU). The recent financial crisis brought in the middle...

The paper shows a few conceptual assignations concerning the financial behavior of the population. Thus, there are defined attached predicates (the inclusion into the economic behavior category, the existence of a monetary factor, the action for goods and non-autonomous flows, as well as for...

It is our duty to insist, by repetition, on some aspects linked with possible exit from the present crisis, observing that the general approach has had the temptation to derail from the well known and very simple rules imposed either by theory or practice in connection with the business cycle...

This article is inspired by a public debate on the necessity to improve the rules for a competition in a certain area, e.g. the market for agricultural products. The emphasis put on the key role of a branch within a whole economy, as a starting point in rethinking the regulation of competition,...

The economic crisis is still evolving, at least from the point of view of some features making the entire process of its reversing very difficult - uncertainties, confusions and lack of investors` trust. More then that, every rim of the Atlantic Ocean has its own opinion as to the timing of the...

Romanian economy is on the verge to experience a recession as the result of the spilling over of the effects of the international financial crisis. We have to admit the transcendence of the good and bad things of the global economy to the individual economies, Romania not being an exception. At...