Modern finance has become a very complicated field, which raises many questions about its economic and social mission. Many bankers' ignorance of complex knowledge and care for the future are hostile ingredients that transform the markets' volatility, through spillover effects, into economic and...

This article aims to research the ample cultural implications behind the expansion and adoption of corporate governance principles and practices and on the cultural differences inherent in the proc-ess of translation /localisation of American, English or transnational practices towards...

The institutional and organizational change was the subject of a rich literature for a long time. There are several specialized fields ( e.g. institutional economics, organizations theory etc.) and interdisciplinary approaches focused on the understanding and predicting changes of institutions...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the discourse of Romanian universities as a mirror of the reformation process in the national higher educational system. Design/methodology/approach – The focus of this paper is on external and internal communication, on institutional...

Nowadays, when there is much concern about the demographic decline of Europe and the stringent need for public policies that support intelligent, sustainable, and inclusive growth in times of population ageing, this study aims to validate several hypotheses regarding the post-graduation...

This paper explores the institutional and human-nature determinants of financial investment behavior across households from 25 European countries by employing the seventh wave of the SHARE-ERIC survey. We find that households' investment behavior in shares or stocks is strongly associated with...

The values, faiths and virtues generate relatively stable attitudes and enduring predispositions of behavior, manifested in relation to a situation or person. The Weberian secularization hypothesis shows that, while the process of economic development is launched, the religious institution plays...

In the specific literature, religious diversity has received important attention. The present study contributes to the literature of economics of religion by examining the impact of religious freedom and other specific variables of freedom (like economic freedom, political freedom and civil...

The transition of Central and Eastern European post-communist countries followed different sets of reforms with different degrees of success which generated a monolithic debate attitude for decades. From shock-therapy and intermediary to gradualist approaches, I stress the superiority of...