În cuprinsul prezentei lucrări sunt examinate valenţele indicatorului “coeficientul de determinare standardizat”, propus de autor, pentru cuantificarea eficienţei utilizării variabilelor explicative şi a ierarhizării condiţiilor care trebuie îndeplinite în cazul unor teste...

The monetary policy decision, as any other decision, is the product of a procedure assembling a lot of primary information, but also what type of other ingredients contribute finally to a certain monetary policy decision.

Monetary policy should be guided by macroeconomic models with limited nominal rigidity – ‘New Classical’ or even for some issues just plain Classical (i.e. with no nominal rigidity at all) models are perfectly adequate for understanding various aspects of the economy that have previously...

The financial crisis gave an impetus to finding “weaknesses” in financial institutions. One such tool is the stress-testing. This method is intended to identify through modeling “hypothetical” or “historical” scenarios, the most losses, in the execution of a script. In the simulation...

Aspectele măsurabile ale procesului de realizare a convergenÅ£ei pe plan economic, a ţărilor UE reprezintă obiectivul principal al acestei lucrări. În acest scop, sunt prezentate ÅŸi aplicate metode statistice ÅŸi econometrice care pot evidenÅ£ia elementele caracteristice...

The paper analyses the presuppositions (often implicit) the actual quantitative and logical modelling is based on. In the context, some points of view are proposed, aimed at to eliminate or reduce the incertitude and vagueness generated by the actual way of understanding the macroeconomic modelling.

The paper discusses the empirical methodology developed by labor economists in order to analyze the gender wage gap.