In the R&D policy making framework, synthetic innovation indicators were proved to be useful tools in identifying performance issues and general trends. This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on the recent trends in Romanian innovation capacity in an international context, based on the...

Geographers, economists and regional scientists have long been concerned with uneven regional development and the ways by which the unequal regional distribution of economic activity across space influence the process of economic growth among regions. A dominating feature of economic activities...

This paper aims to present the dimensions, causes and consequences of negative phenomena such as tax evasion and underground economy. The present economic context, generated by the financial-economic world crisis aggravates these phenomena, which have a bad influence on the degree of taxation,...

The carousel fraud regarding the value added tax related to intra-community purchases is an undisputed presence, although unwanted, in the EU space. The mechanism in itself is structured on the transitory current condition for taxation of intra-community exchanges, which supposes, as a rule, the...

The aim of this paper is to present the significant changes in public expenditures policy at European Union level, after 1990. Firstly, the paper analyzes the dynamics of public expenditures over a period of time between 1991-2009 and shows that countries which started to reduce public...

This paper presents some effects of the current international economic and financial crisis on the main macroeconomic variables. For this purpose, are valued the direct and indirect influences, on short and mediumterm, of the crisis on direct investment, on employment, on the non-governmental...

The goal of this paper is to discuss the joint analyses of fiscal, income and monetary policy in modifying aggregate spending. The paper is focused on the specific characteristics of aggregate demand depending on phases of economic cycle. Through this paper I also intend to emphasize that the...

In developing countries, governments are tempted to, and they often do finance their budget deficits by issuing currency. This leads to inflation, and ultimately, the source of the incomes to the budget are the inflation tax and the seigniorage. The mechanism that is used is the direct loan,...

Everyone, whether they be private individuals or companies, are potential tax payers to the state so long as they receive revenues within its territory, which is why they need to have solid financial knowledge. The multiple legislative transformation within the financial arena, brought about by...

The current paper emphasizes, besides the definitions specific to the public debt concepts, the government public debt and the local public debt, as well as some data related to the gross government debt, in accordance to the European Union methodology, the analysis of influencing the economic...