The interrelation research-development-innovation has proved crucial for raising the economic competitiveness. The comparative analysis of Romania’competitiveness in the global and European context highlights significant gaps as compared with advanced countries, mainly in R&D intensity,...

In the paper the use of “end of pipe” clean technologies for steel making in oxygen converter are presented. The exhaust gases resulted from steel making process contain dust, smoke and oxides as pollutants. For restraining them electric filter or washers are used. The washer can be...

The Romanian economy goes through a stage of economic unbalances. In this context, the necessity generated by psychological and practical reasons to understand and draft ideas concerning the future behaviour of economic systems such as to overrun the actual condition of our country economy...

This paper explores the economic growth of Romania in three periods: the last decade of the communist regime (1980-1989), the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy (1990-2006) and the seven years that followed the adhesion to European Union (2007 – 2013). We approach...

Romanian Abstract: Această lucrare studiază creşterea economică a României în cursul a trei perioade: ultimul deceniu al regimului comunist (1980-1989), tranziţia de la o economie centralizată la una de piaţă (1990-2006) şi cei şapte ani care au urmat aderării la Uniunea Europeană...

Romanian Abstract: Adeseori, în cadrul analizei seriilor de timp exprimate în unităţi monetare, este indicată ajustarea la inflaţie. Această lucrare prezintă câteva tehnici simple de evaluare a creşterii reale

Accelerated globalization has shown a new significant dimension of intermediate goods cross border flows, led mainly by multinational companies searching competitiveness gains through international fragmentation of production and delocalization on international value-added chains. The related...

Optimizarea unei zone monetare, în sensul unei funcţionări viabile pe termen lung, se fundamentează pe capacitatea acesteia de a gestiona şocurile asimetrice care tind să se propage în interior. Un şoc macroeconomic comun propagat în cadrul tuturor subsistemelor poate fi asimetric în...

Urban systems are becoming increasingly complex as urban economies, social and political structures and norms, infrastructure systems and technologies evolve. Therefore, the development of operational urban simulation models is required in order to achieve an improvement of the quality of...