equilibrium fictions. In the framework of this paper, technology, contacts with the outside world, and changes in power and wealth …

Romania. The main finding is that the positive effects prevail when the starting level of increase in the minimum wage is very …

intensity over the past two decades, Romania still emits more greenhouse gas per unit of output than many other members of the … model, TIMES, this study develops energy supply mixes for Romania under a baseline scenario that satisfies the European … finds that although Romania could achieve the green scenario at a moderate cost, it would be challenging and costly to …

This study develops an end-use energy demand analysis model for Romania to project energy demand by sector and end …-use for 2015-50. The study finds that Romania's energy demand in 2050 would be 34 percent higher than the level in 2013. The … service sector, which is relatively electricity intensive. Still, per capita electricity consumption in Romania will be about …

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 …

conducted by the World Bank in six Eastern European countries during the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the paper shows that the …

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 …