In the national economy system, the subsystems of agricultural production (ASPEFV) and of food production (PABT) are “anchored” to other sectors by a series of “backward linkages” and “forward linkages”. Representing, in fact, the intermediary consumption intensity in final...

The paper analyzes the circumstances in which the combination of forecasts yields better results than the use of the forecasts separately. We propose a method of combining forecasts based on their efficiency on long and medium-term using as benchmarks the combination of forecasts based on...

This paper attempts to analyze the employment dynamics in some Central and East European countries using the principal component analysis. The data considered regards the percentage of employees in the total labor force for seven branches of the economic activity in 2000. The analyses comprise...

New materials have been recognized as significant drivers for corporate growth and profitability in today’s fast changing environments. The nanosized ceramic powders played important parts in new materials field nowadays. However, little has been done in discussing the technology forecasting...

The future use of coal depends on environmental protection measures and the Kyoto Protocol, the price of CO2 emission coupons, consumption, new technologies, the price of other energy sources and the liberalization of the electricity markets. The prices of emission coupons will impact the costs...

Lawrence Robert Klein played a fundamental role in the genesis and development of econometric applications and forecasting. The work dedicated to forecasting earned him the 1980 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences "for the creation of econometric models and their application to the analysis of...

On the basis of the peculiarities of turnover structural distributions, identified as a result of research conducted on 1009 classified markets, the paper comparatively analyzes the structural distributions of the major economic indicators of the national system of companies. The choice of...