Cost-benefit analysis is a major step in carrying out a feasibility study, as it allows for expressing an opinion on the economic and social value of the project as well as for a ranking according to their potential to create or increase net social benefits. Among the weaknesses of this type of...

We can observe an increase assessment of cohesion policy. It is linked with the growing amount of support spend on this policy as well as need for greater efficiency in the use of these resources due to the crisis in government spending . Evaluations are dedicated to a large number of areas a...

It is often disregarded that the euro is first of all a public good based on common institutions such the European Central Bank, the Governing Council and a network for executing transactions etc. Establishing a public good is fundamentally different from trade in private goods. A public good...

The paper analyzes issues of emergence and development of institute of legal support of activity of the situational centers in the Russian Federation

Este Informe realiza un diagnóstico de la trayectoria reciente de la economía española y propone medidas para recuperar el crecimiento y entrar en una etapa de desarrollo continuado, que ofrezca a la sociedad española nuevas oportunidades de progreso. Para reencontrar su lugar en la...

The objective of this article is to highlight the main methods that could quantify the impact of the structural funds on the GDP and that could analyze the factors which negatively affect the absorption rate. This analysis is imperative because at this moment, Romania is facing one of the lowest...

The National Development Plan (NDP) is the fundamental instrument by which Romania must recover as quickly as socio-economic disparities towards the EU. The reason of the developing of PND was to establish directions for the allocation of public funds for investment with significant impact on...

Romania must focus on achieving net benefits from its participation to the European Union. One of the main drivers is the absorption of structural funds which is proven to bring strong positive effects at macroeconomic level. Starting from the HEROM model, the paper analyzes comparative...

The paper focuses on one of the current operational programmes in Romania, i.e. the Regional Operational Programme. The aim of the research is to build and run an econometric model which is able to analyze the absorption level for the above-mentioned programme. Following a brief presentation of...

This paper illustrates that evaluating alternate abatement polices that affect the growth path of an economy on the basis of their effects on asset valuation may not be welfare enhancing. We show that the class of abatement polices considered in the integrated assessment literature are robust...