The paper aims to assess the latest developments in the competitiveness of the Romanian regions, with a particular focus on innovation as one of its key determinants. Different sets of indicators are used and comparisons with the EU countries and their regions are provided. The results reveal...

Face to a significant list of theories on the foreign direct investments origins we previously worked on a simple world level FDI=DIA (direct investments abroad) equality on both short and (especially) long terms supporting several approaches: first, the “world top-16”, then the...

Traditional theory of the consumer explains development of demand through changes in prices and income. Consumer tastes and preferences are considered to be constant, stable, therefore does not take account of them in explaining market participants behavior. Indeed, from scientific point of...

The actual global crisis seems to influence negatively the sustainable development in EU countries. At least partially the informal economy escapes from the official registered GDP and hidden migration from the official demographic statistics. This can affect in a significant way the measurement...

Starting from existing literature and recent years studies, several modeling schemes have been developed, which may prove useful to substantiate strategies aimed at achieving a demographic and economic balance between generations. This way, we can obtain simulations from a country or group of...

This paper studies the particularities of portfolio selection on the Romanian stock market using the risk-return maximization criteria introduced by Harry Markowitz (1952). We used daily prices for the 36 most liquid companies traded on Bucharest Stock Exchange during January 2010 – March 2012...

We have chosen to study the FDI topic as its world table of flows’ landscape, together with the role of individual countries as adequate in context in a series of papers of both large(r) and narrow(er) size(s). A distinct theory of FDI (sources) was equally needed – while / despite that...

Mankind has witnessed many outstanding weather happenings which determined radical climate changes and thus, the draught is expected further to grow. Many experts, academics and scientists all over the continents have strongly called for attention about the importance of saving the water, either...

A national database (NDB) or an international one (abbreviated IDB), also named often as “data bankâ€, represents a method of storing some information and data on an external device (a storage device), with the possibility of an easy extension or an easy way to quickly find these...

Regional development is a concept aimed at boosting and diversifying economic activity, stimulating investment, contributing to the judicious use of human resources and quality of life. Could be applied to regional development policy were set eight development regions, which comprise all over...