Economic growth driven by a broad spectrum of factors is essential to long-term, sustainable development. From this perspective the paper approaches the economic growth of rural areas in Romania in light of the Europe 2020 Strategy, in order to identify specific indicators and national targets....

This paper presents the empirical evidence of how exchange rate volatility affects the flow of export trade. The estimation of this relationship is complicated, due to the endogeneity between exchange rate volatility and trade. To mitigate this issue, I introduce an instrumental variable to the...