By creating the Common Market and coordinating the economic policies of the member states, within the European Union, it is aimed to promote economic development and improvement of the living standard. The concept of common market makes reference firstly to eliminating custom duties within the...

The ecological taxes fulfil a major function in the environment protection, but they are not a solution to every case. Sometimes, it is difficult to impose an ecological tax due to the complex phenomena. The ecological taxes are a useful tool of the policies aiming at both the increasing...

This paper examines the determinants of intra-industry trade (IIT) in the Romanian automobile parts and accessories sector. The trade in this sector between Romania and 12 countries (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland and...

This study investigates the causal relationships between tourism exports and trade openness, using the case of Romania. The study applies the unit root test, cointegration procedure and Granger causality test in vector error correction model (VECM), in the attempt to study the direction of the...

The present paper is addressing the issue of entrepreneurship in rural tourism, identifying its potential to stimulate the rural areas of Romania. Tourism in general and rural tourism in particular are dominated by small business where the spirit of initiative, desire to achieve and the ability...

Sectoral detailed analysis of the economy of a country is a difficult process, but important in the current context of globalization, in particular because of the complexity of interconnections between the branches, being known the role of investments and capital, but also trade, in GDP...

This paper aims to investigate the effects of climate change on the seaside tourism, on the base of two different but interesting case studies namely seaside tourism in Portugal, with is beautiful and very attractive resorts (i.e. Algarve, Madeira, Azores, Estoril, Alentejano) and littoral...

The investigation of socio-cultural impact of tourism has brought about a substantial number of case studies, still its assessment remains very poor. This paper aims to put under discussion some indices and instruments of measuring the socio-economic impact of tourism, such as tourism intensity,...