The EU expansion process is a dynamic one which requires the candidate country to acknowledge the latest developments in communitarian social policy. The dominant economic aspects are currently reinforced by the social ones. Likewise, a consensus must exist regarding the implementation in...

The pension system in Romania is currently in the process of identifying methods and models that meet the requirements imposed by the disappearance of barriers in the flow of goods, capital and service mobility. Taking this into consideration, solutions to a more complex study of the Romanian...

Rivers country's is one of Romania's national wealth. Overflowing rivers can lead to loss of all kinds (if their rate is uncontrolled), may contribute to the creation of preconditions for socio-economic development of those territories, adjacent rivers (if their rate is controlled, regulated)....

The paper at hand aims at a brief analysis of the social services and the social phenomenon currently happening in many of the Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU) in the context of a more prominent economic crisis and, in the same time, as a result of the augmentation in the workers'...

This study is aimed at the analysis of social insurance for unemployment, with a focus on the expenses necessary for the retraining and professional change of the unemployed in view of the free circulation of goods, people and capital that applies as Romania became a part of the EU...

In explaining economic phenomena, economic analysis concentrates on selected influences and fixes the host of other factors under a ceteris paribus clause. This view, which goes back to Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), is developed in the first part of the book. Aggregation is viewed as a particular...

Life annuities provide a guaranteed income for the remainder of the recipient’s lifetime, and therefore, annuitization presents an important option when choosing an adequate investment strategy for the retirement ages. While there are numerous research articles studying annuities from a...

Even 50 years after Modigliani/Miller’s irrelevance theorem, the basic question of how firms choose their capital structure remains unclear. This survey paper aims at summarizing and discussing corresponding recent developments in empirical capital structure research, which, in our view, are...

There has been a wide-spread misconception based on the imprecise wording of Art. 52 of the European Patent Convention (EPC) that the protection of business methods by patents is prohibited in Europe. This paper investigates the legal framework set by patent laws with respect to the...

Ein Großteil der Neugründungen in Deutschland ist auf staatliche Förderung von Existenzgründern zurückzuführen. Dieser Anteil hat sich nach Einführung des als „Ich-AG“ bekannten Existenzgründungszuschusses Anfang 2003 stark erhöht. Die Erfolgsfaktorenforschung hat diese Form von...