Consumers act in housing in a way that disposable income is allocated to current consumption or for savings and future consumer needs. In many countries, household consumption is studied by analyzing family budgets. Household income is the main source of cover for public need of consumption. In...

The study of economic agents’ behaviour, whose nowadays tendency is to group themselves in space as clusters, has an important place in the field of localizing industrial activities. This is due to domestic scale economies, known as agglomerations economies. According to Edgar M. Hoover...

Demographic ageing appeared in the modern society and designates an important increase in the elderly population segment in the total of the senior population and has implications for all sections of the society. The main cause of this phenomenon is transition from the traditional system of...

Corporate social responsibility has become the frame concept of a very large number of debates and reviews over the last decades. However, there still are themes which raise question marks, such as: the imoral character development of the integrating corporate social responsibility activities in...

The economic convergence consists in the very close, even identical evolutions of one variable in two different countries or regions. Within the European model, the macroeconomic and cohesion policies insure a good substantiation of the sustained economic

At almost two years from aderation, the Romanian Economy continues to place in the top the economic growth, instead of competitivity, productivity and performance. The ability to be competitive, at an economical, but also share level, depends on the public polices that are applied, which can...

L'un des traits importants du marché unique européen, a comme source le même énoncé du principal objectif de l'intégration européenne ainsi que: l'harmonisation des niveaux du développement des Etats Membres et l'augmentation du niveau de vie dans l'ensemble de la communauté. Pour le...

The end of the XXth century and the beginning of the XXIst have been marked both by the growth of globalization’s amplitude and by the changes of the international security environment. The main threatens are terrorism, mass destruction weapons, the growing world polarisation between rich and...