Romania was one of the first transition countries in Europe to introduce auctions for allocating standing timber … directorates in Romania, Neamt and Suceava. This application confirms that data from Romanian timber auctions can be used to …

This paper examines productivity growth in Romania using balance sheet data for a census of Romanian firms in 2011 … in Romania? and (ii) what are the drivers behind productivityexpansion? A first step of the analysis characterizes … there is scope to improve firm capabilities, particularly in services. These findings suggest a policy agenda for Romania …

The combined effect of taxes and social spending in Romania helps to reduce inequality, although less so than in other …

Romania faces an acute population crisis with an aging workforce and an increased number of emigrants particularly from … Romania and investment in Romanian firms are positively correlated with plans to return migrate. Policies that boost … to return to Romania, moderating the negative consequences of the declining and aging population, and increasing the …

Romania's European Union accession in 2007 has resulted in a substantial reduction of the formal barriers to … in Romania to those of European Union countries, as measured by the OECD indicators of Product Market Regulation. These … countries reveals that, for half of the policy areas covered by the study, Romania's product market policies are more …

exports plus imports to gross domestic product -- have positive effects on productivity growth. In Romania a 10 percent … improvement: had Romania improved its regulatory environment to the same level as Denmark in 2010, its annual productivity growth …

Romania, along with many other countries in the European Union, faces daunting fiscal challenges. Fiscal balances … deteriorated sharply following the global economic crisis, forcing Romania to implement a fiscal consolidation that was one of the …. Because of widespread tax evasion, the tax system in Romania is one of the least efficient in the European Union. Tax reforms …

(Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, and Turkey), this paper applies panel data estimators and Juhn-Murphy Pierce …