Considered from the perspective of Romania's accession to the European Union, we can say that starting with 1 January 2007, foreign trade transactions were delimited in relation to the customs borders in intra-Community transactions and international transactions. In this context, the way of...

Companies that want to maximize their profits must decide on several elements that influence this aspect. An important role is pricing the product or service offered by the company. In determining the best price for the product, management must take into account several factors such as cost /...

Market research is a powerful industry, whose value reached 21,5 billion USD in 2004. Market studies expenses are mostly concentrated in Europe (45%) and in USA (37%). The market shares of the Top 10 companies were above fifty per cent of the research market's turnover. As a young, modest...

Business may be interpreted as a ,,game" that earns only the very ,,strong" and trained or competitive activity, leaving the losers who only know how to obtain profit. The online business companies changed the rules of the trade game everywhere and for everybody. The new created models became a...

In this article I have tried to make a short presentation of the Euro Zone and it’s monetary policy. At the present moment the Euro Zone has 16 countries that have adopted the Euro as a national currency and also 4 small countries that have monetary agreements with their neighbours. The...

This paper assesses the sustainability of the CA deficits in the New Member States (NMS) of European Union by estimating its structural component based on fundamentals. Using a large sample of panel data, we estimated long term relationships for the CA deficit and its fundamentals using two...

The study is focusing on excessive current account deficits accumulation which is endangering the perspectives of Romania’s long-term external financial position. In order to reveal the real drivers of current account balance, the development of two distinctly components of the foreign trade...

Under the circumstances of rising and persistent deficits in the Romanian foreign trade, the contribution of net exports to the GDP growth remains negative, in 2005 halving practically the domestic demand increase. One factor behind this trend is the IPT (Inward Processing Trade) which doesn’t...

The paper focuses on the current system of country risk assessment by the main rating agencies, pointing out some of its weaknesses. Under these circumstances, was found that Romania is overrated by the international agencies, mainly due to political reasons, related to the close accession of...