In the present study we assess the dependency structure between stock indexes by econometrically estimating the empirical copula function and the parameters of various parametric copula functions. The main finding is that the t-copula and the Gumbel-Clayton mixture copula are the most...

The paper provides potential output and output gap estimates for the Romanian economy in the period 1998-2008. Our approach consists in combining the production function structural method with several statistical de-trending methods. The contribution of our analysis to the scarce literature...

This paper provides estimates for the structural fiscal balance for the Romanian economy over the period 1998-2008. The calculation of the structural fiscal balance is useful, since it provides a clear picture of the fiscal stance of the economy and it is essential in the context of a medium...

We simulate possible growth paths assuming that the Romanian economy behaves according to the hypothesis of the Uzawa-Lucas model. By calibrating the model to the Romanian economy, we are able to forecast the evolution of the Romanian GDP and the proportion of human capital which will be used in...

Taking into consideration the importance of the sustainability of public finance, in the present study we calibrate and simulate a three-sector Greiner, Semmler and Gong (2004) model for the Romanian economy. The simulations were performed considering three fiscal regimes, defined according to...

In the present study, we estimate the parameters of the Generalized Hyperbolic Distribution for a series of stock index returns including the Romanian BETC and indexes from other two Eastern European countries, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Using different econometric techniques, we...