The main debate about industrial policy consists of the attitude regarding the role of state versus market. The admission of possible market failures was the inspiration source for policies in the field of competition strengthening, supply of public goods, overcoming the deficit of capital etc....

Irrespective of their size, companies seem to be more efficient when they compete with one another, and more creative when they co-operate. 

Industrial enterprises have to face to more and greater national and international competition and this generates a continuous pressure over them. This desideratum has to be approached with some sufficient distinct means from which the automation is only one moreover possibility. So in this...

This study contributes to the literature on the competitiveness of Romanian exports with a new perspective over the decade 2001-2011, by overlapping of two complementary analyses: of the export performance dynamics and of the domestic revenues created by export manufacturers and their suppliers....

The protest campaign against globalization proves a public, general anxiety that, thinking deeply, is not entirely unjustified. It’t about political interests that, unfortunately, have an influence on the economic ones. Therefore, one can speak about a discrepancy between the economic...

This paper examines the evolution of the EU’s trade in services over the 2004-2008 period in comparison with its trade in goods. It aims to disentangle the main trends shaping the EU’s services trade flows under the impact of increasing globalisation and the last two waves of EU enlargement....

Das Gutachten behandelt steuerliche Aspekte der Aktivitäten von Private-Equity-Fonds und Hedge-Fonds. Welche wirtschaftliche Rolle spielen sie?Braucht die deutsche Volkswirtschaft diese Kapitalbeteiligungsgesellschaften etwa wegen Kapitalmangels? Und dann die zentrale Frage: Werden sie so...