This paper examines the evolution of the EU’s trade in services over the 2004-2008 period in comparison with its trade in goods. It aims to disentangle the main trends shaping the EU’s services trade flows under the impact of increasing globalisation and the last two waves of EU enlargement....

The study is based on the critical observations that the competitive market forces alone are not able to assure the convergence with the developed countries. 

The study defines the three types of convergence – institutional, nominal and real ones –, the connection among them and their main measurement indicators. 

This study offers from the beginning a survey about the institutional construction in the pre- and post-adhesion stages to European Economic and Monetary Union, about the exchange rate mechanism applied by the different countries and about convergence criteria.

The process of adhesion to the European structures imposes a certain direction to the capital markets and by this to the economic development. 

The English version of the article can be found at: 'https://ssrn.com/abstract=3113686' https://ssrn.com/abstract=3113686.Romanian Abstract: Creşterea exporturilor prin stimularea investiţiilor strǎine directe ar putea fi o soluţie pentru problema deficitelor persistente ale balanţei...

<span lang=\"\\"\\\\"\\\\\\\\"EN-GB\\\\\\\\"\\\\"\\"\" style=\"\"\"\"font-family: \">Drawing on recent literature on the issue of services offshoring, this essay aims to give an overall picture on the dynamics, scale and effects of this phenomenon in Romania.</span>

The study begins establishing the risk for the foreign direct investments of the international corporations.