In the 2000 Romanian Presidential election the results after the first round placed Ion Iliescu in first, Corneliu Vadim Tudor in second, Theodor Stolojan in third and Mugur Isarescu in fourth position. The first two candidates, Ion Iliescu and Corneliu Vadim Tudor, were close enough to ensure a...

This article aims is to study the evolution of real minimum wages by branches of the Romanian economy and shaping trends in the period 2000-2008 to 2009-2010 years. In the scientific approach comprised the following steps: composition series nominal gross minimum wage at branch level, based on...

The aim of the international conference ESPERA 2016 was to present and evaluate the economic scientific research portfolio, to argue and substantiate Romanian development strategies – including European and global best practices. The plenary session and the parallel sections were centered on...

The use of agent based modeling in economics is a step forward enabling a more realistic description of the complex interactions and behaviors present in the economic environment. Although it offers increase realism especially in describing how local characteristics generate global patterns it...

For Romania, as a member of the European Union since the first of January 2007, a series of problems regarding competitiveness of the Romanian companies became more and more visible. These problems are correlated with the need to improve the efficiency of the productive processes, to reduce...

The paper focuses on the persistent and non-persistent changes in relative prices and their relation with the volatility of the aggregated price index. From the methodological perspective, the paper analyzes the implications of the hypotheses of five main methods for calculating core inflation...

The paper analyzes the circumstances in which the combination of forecasts yields better results than the use of the forecasts separately. We propose a method of combining forecasts based on their efficiency on long and medium-term using as benchmarks the combination of forecasts based on...

The paper analyzes the structural changes–price changes binomial in passing from symmetric to asymmetric economic behaviors. The results are in line with the ones obtained in Dobrescu (2009) indicating that the structural production impulse has a higher impact on inflation than the inflational...

The paper deals with an evolutionary model focused on the relation between the behavior of prices and the structure of the population of economic agents. The model allows for identification of the short-term behavior of prices and the dynamics of the population of economic agents in the context...

In the 2000 Romanian Presidential election the results after the first round placed Ion Iliescu in first, Corneliu Vadim Tudor in second, Theodor Stolojan in third and Mugur Isarescu in fourth position. The first two candidates, Ion Iliescu and Corneliu Vadim Tudor, were close enough to ensure a...