Issues emerged on the subprime mortgage market in United States lead to a very important global financial crisis. In this frame, Romania its affected by the problem of the financial accessibility of having a house and that’s why the mortgage offer linked with a reasonable interest rate...

In this paper we intend to find out what is the best choice of stocks-based portfolio. The major goal is to find whether is more efficient to invest the whole capital in a single sector, like financial investments, or to create a diversified portfolio, taking into account assets from various...

In order to survive in the face of continuing global competition, in the long run, developing countries SMEs will have to be inserted into global value chains (GVCs). For the Romanian apparel SMEs, the insertion in a GVC is having farreaching effects on competitiveness, cross-national transfer...

This paper questions the validity of the statistical methods currently used in computing the composite indicators of well-being from their main subcomponents. The facts that most of the weights of the principal sub-components of the composite indicators are equal, that the determinants of...

There is considerable debate on the methods used to compute composite indicators of well-being. The fact that most of the weights of the principal sub-components of the composite indicators are equal, and that the determinants of well-being are, to a certain extent, correlated, makes the use of...