This paper explores the institutional and human-nature determinants of financial investment behavior across households from 25 European countries by employing the seventh wave of the SHARE-ERIC survey. We find that households' investment behavior in shares or stocks is strongly associated with...

The almost topical so-called Information Revolution has actually became The Knowledge Revolution. What made it possible to automate processes is not the machine - that is just the trigger. As form of reorganization of traditional work, based on centuries of experience, the well-known concept of...

In this paper, the author explored and analyzed the most relevant influences of financial and life satisfaction. They resulted from World Values Survey data between 1994 and 2020 (300K+ observations). Both Data Mining and Statistical methods supported this study. The first method used in this...

The current vulnerabilities, at national and EU level, in terms of energy supply at appropriate and stable prices, through protected critical infrastructures, triggers multiple actions at the highest levels of decision. While aiming at sustaining and increasing the economic performance and,...

With regard to both the industrial and household consumption, renewable energy sources (RES) are not granted the attention they deserve. As proof, currently, renewable energy (Aeolian, solar, hydro, geothermal and biomass) represents less than 1/10 of the total energy used at the level of the...

In a framework characterized by a relatively high degree of institutionalization, such as that of the European Union, it became difficult to imagine that the problem of Green Public Procurement (GPP) could surpass it. The special importance of the GPP, due to its favorable effects on the...

Economic development has been a major priority for the European Commission, with significant amounts of Structural and Cohesion Funds being allocated in this direction. With the enlargements of the Union in 2004, 2007 and 2013, the Regional Development Policy faced a new challenge, with the...