The main purpose of this article is to describe and validate/test a set of hypothetical traits of the theology students from two important Romanian universities regarding their migration attitudes after graduation. The study is based on a consistent questionnaire survey, both in terms of...

Nowadays, when there is much concern about the demographic decline of Europe and the stringent need for public policies that support intelligent, sustainable, and inclusive growth in times of population ageing, this study aims to validate several hypotheses regarding the post-graduation...

In this paper, we aim to assess the role of being part of the former Habsburg Empire on current entrepreneurial intentions in a particular area. It is about the North-Eastern region of Romania. Further, we intend to evaluate the determinants of Romanians’ inclination to become self-employed...

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 invention of printing press and the process of book production had an important impact on the entire human action, affecting almost every political, economic, social, religious and philosophical field. For centuries, the book production was mostly conducted in relation with the Church. And...

Any economic paradigm is in some way based on a certain value premise. The Islamic one considers that the main actor, the individual, does not have as a goal the maximising of the output that needs to be realized, in the shape of the wealth or of the individual consuming. The individual is not...

Using different hypothesis and empiric demonstrations of some well-known economists in this domain, the period between 1500-1750, in which appeared the recrudescence of the protestant paradigm of capitalism, try to be considered the explanation by which, at least in the analised period of time,...

The purpose of the working paper is to chart the role of religion (the most important part of the culture) and its possibilities of benefiting the economy and society. The aim is to find out how religious competence and economic activities are linked together, how do these elements interact at...

Recently, more and more use is made from book production as a measure of the long-run development of human capital. However, its relation with technology and growth is often found to be small and changing over time. In this paper we try to establish the link between book production and the...

Modern finance has become a very complicated field, which raises many questions about its economic and social mission. Many bankers' ignorance of complex knowledge and care for the future are hostile ingredients that transform the markets' volatility, through spillover effects, into economic and...