Early attempts to develop a modern model for the assessment of performance of portfolios of instruments belong to American teacher Harry Markowitz. He has abandoned the classical approach of the analysis of financial investment (based solely on technical and fundamental analysis), pointing...

Social media is likely the marketing and communication channel which grew fastest from "unique and modern" to "mandatory". Presented as a solution for the future, usage of media channels has already become a key part of any brand promoting campaign or business expansion effort. And football...

In the frame of this article we submitted the practical possibilities to analyse the stock market activity in Romania, by means of the linear regression model. Thus, the study is focusing on the existing correlations between the yield of a portfolio formed by ten financial assets issued by...

Traditionally, banking consists in attracting deposits or other repayable fundsfrom the population and in granting loans. This paper aims to analyze the attracted depositsand the loans granted by BRD - Groupe Societe Generale in relation to the Romanianbanking system, as well as analyze the...

Increases in oil prices induce various economic and political impacts, such as greater attention being given to renewable substitute alternatives. From this perspective, this study provides some descriptive statistics and univariate estimations for one of the countries that cannot meet its...

In a simple multiple linear regression model, the design variables have traditionally been assumed to be non-stochastic. In numerous real-life situations, however, they are stochastic and non-normal. Estimators of parameters applicable to such situations are developed. It is shown that these...

During the last decades many financial analysts, either theorists or practitioners, have dedicated their studies to the interactions between different financial sectors. The results of these researches confirm that commodities, bonds and stock markets are closely related, therefore a thorough...

Current methods of testing the equality of conditional correlations of bivariate data on a third variable of interest (covariate) are limited due to discretizing of the covariate when it is continuous. In this study, we propose a linear model approach for estimation and hypothesis testing of the...

Twenty five (25) Galeoides decadactylus bought from Ijora were examined for the growth pattern, food and feeding habit and reproduction biology of the fish. The standard length of the specimen ranged from 17.5 to 21.7. The correlation coefficient was 0.85 which showed a strong correlation...

In this paper it is studied the influence of unemployment rate on non-performing loansin Romania. The following issues are presented: the definition of nonperforming loans, the criteriaused by Romania in the definition of nonperforming loans (NPL), Romanian legislation thatregulates...