international firms and systematically important non-banking financial institutions. EU on the basis of reports Larosière Commission …

the EU regarding its collaboration with NATO in the way that it starts on a tradition of the military relations between … the two of them. In order to become a trusted partner and an active member of NATO and EU, Romania had to implement a … organizations. NATO and EU are considered the main promoters of pace and security on the European continent and not only. …

In this paper we look at the evolution of the R&D intensity gap between the EU and its major competitors using data … the EU and its major competitors (US, Japan, BRIC, Asian Tigers) and then we look more closely at the role and evolution … on the EU-US R&D intensity gap and, by applying firm level econometric analysis, we test whether the results obtained by …

) stock market, regional factor Europe (RF EU) stock market and as the world factor oil price (WF Oil) changes on the eight … country j has been explained respectively by Global Factor US (GF US), Regional Factor EU (RF EU), local factor (own market of … from the US-global, EU-regional, and the world factor oil towards individual stock markets. While both mean and volatility …

(EU), which aims to become the world's leading knowledge-based economy, has a fragmented and expensive system of national … patents. It lacks an environment which values investment in IP generation and management.Until recently, the EU enjoyed global … competitive advantage in the life sciences, but this advantage has been lost. To regain this competitive advantage the EU must …