A collection of multiple articles on economic sciences with topics ranging from developing creativity to the interdependence between culture and economy, all of which have been selected for the 2016 edition of The International Conference 'Education and Creativity for a Knowledge-Based Society'...

This article aims at proposing new ways in which economic analysis can be applied to important issues related to security of energy supply. More particularly, we show how the real options theory may be a convenient tool to analyze the uncertainties surrounding the development of unconventional...

The accentuation of the trend of demographic aging and the alarming deterioration of the economic dependency rate significantly affected the financial sustainability of the public pension system and stressed the need for a mixed system, public and private. Frank Fandenbrouke1 declared, with...

The author put in discussion the problem that might arise in connection with the punishment prescribed by law for the criminal attempt to commit the offence of robbery (art. 222 of c. pen in force) which resulted in the death of the victim, unless we find out in front of the disparities between...

This article addresses the following question: How to deal with uncertainty, emergence of new information and irreversibility in the decision process of the long-term disposal of radioactive waste? Intuitively, one might think that measures taken today are more relevant when they are ‡exible....

This article offers some economic insights for the debate on the reversible geological disposal of radioactive waste. Irreversibility due to large sunk costs, an important degree of fiexibility and several sources of uncertainty are taken into account in the decision process relative to the...

This article addresses the following question: How to deal with uncertainty, emergence of new information and irreversibility in the decision process of the long-term disposal of radioactive waste? Intuitively, one might think that measures taken today are more relevant when they are ‡exible....

This article offers some economic insights for the debate on the reversible geological disposal of radioactive waste. Irreversibility due to large sunk costs, an important degree of flexibility and several sources of uncertainty are taken into account in the decision process relative to the...

Social Protection in the EU encountered many difficulties in recent years as a result of demographic trends, economic recession and high unemployment. Member countries are put in a position to reform social protection systems so that they are financially viable and at the same time to remain...