The European social model is characterized by a high heterogeneity degree, the member countries recording significant differences between the national redistribution systems. According to the existing gaps regarding the decreases of the poverty, the participation to the labour market and the...

This paper deals with the problem of the public pension system’s sustainability in Romania and its impact upon the sustainability of the public finance. Thus, the public pension deficit increased in the last three years, caused by the unsustainable increase of pensions during expansionary...

The objective of this study is to examine briefly the features of the European social model and to present the main demographic evolutions. The social model is sustainable as long as there is a virtuous correlation between the objectives settled in the Lisbon Strategy: productivity –...

The set of fiscal rules within the Euro area are based on the functionality of the automatic stabilizers as a main instrument of the fiscal stabilization. This non-discretionary approach should guarantee that the evolution of the current budget deficit is anti-cyclic and thus it should...

As it encountered a fiscal event (budget liquidity crisis) in 2009, Romania should have proceeded to one of the most ambitious fiscal correction in the last 30 years in EU. Nevertheless, the absence of vision regarding the increase in quality of the fiscal adjustment is obvious. The fiscal...

This paper evaluates the determinants of growth in GDP per capita in industrialized countries and the lessons for the Romanian economy. How can Romanian economy grow faster? The neoclassical model show that the important determinants of growth are technical progress, increased labor supply and...

This paper provides arguments for the need to improve the fiscal rule proposed by the European Commission within the Fiscal Compact, considering the implementation of an augmented growth-based balance rule optimum for Romania. The first part of the paper presents the proposal for the...

This paper presents the contagion mechanisms of the world financial crisis upon the Romanian economy, the analysis of the way in which the Romanian authorities have reacted during the crisis and the lessons to be learnt subsequently to the encounter with this crisis. Moreover, this work...

Investment volume, even with strong economic crisis, domestic and international, has remained constant, with slight increases from one period to another, until 2008, when they triggered the crisis. Specific is that investment funds were directed to imports of machinery, ignoring the Romanian...