Bucharest, the most important city of Romania with almost 2,5 millions of citizen and 800.000 cars, represent not only the Romanian capitale but the most pollutant city due to the road traffic.

Improving the performance of public sector is the goal that is high on the policy agenda in almost all industrialized countries. Policy makers in individual countries are increasingly aware of the need to know how they are doing relative to the competition. But, the measuring public performance...

In the context of the performance requirements implied by the development of a knowledge based economy, we look at industrial property as an important tool thereof

Throughout the EU, retailing is increasingly becoming dominated by a small number of supermarket chains.

The main objective of the present approach is, first of all, to analyse the "transaction costs" concept and then to prove scientifically the relation transaction costs – institutions.