In this study, we examine whether the levels and structures of top executive compensation vary discernibly with different levels of board independence. We also examine how the newly mandated adoption of the remuneration committee (RC) in Taiwan affects the board independence-executive pay...

Debates over economic policy tend to be enormously confused. It is often the case that even high-level officials and well-known economists seem ignorant of basic accounting identities. This leads them to make claims that literally do not add up. This seems to be especially common in the case of...

The fiscal policy may target the achievement of certain different purposes, either of economic or social nature, of the public infrastructure. Fiscal policy is integrant part of the general economic actions of the state, interfering powerful with the sector, budgetary, monetary, social policies,...

In this paper, the authors will try to analyze the evolution of Romania's labor market, in the last nearly 22 years. More precisely, we will analyze the evolution of the number of employees, the number of pensioners, and the number of unemployed workers, in the mentioned period of time, and we...

This week the Greek government reached agreement with the European authorities and the IMF for 130 billion euros in lending, as part of a new adjustment package to replace the current IMF program that began in May of 2010. Although the agreement should allow the government to avoid default in...

There is a growing chorus of policy analysts and pundits telling the country that we could have millions more jobs in manufacturing, if only we had qualified workers. This claim has the interesting feature that it places responsibility for the lack of jobs on workers, not on the people who get...

One of the most important moments of the start or restart of the academic activity has always been the opening of courses in each subject (discipline) that would be studied. On these occasions each professor shows to the students the subject of the discipline, place and role that intellectual...

to the new and numerous challenges that the market requires. These challenges are economic, but not only. A continuous and steady development involves actually the need to go beyond the limits, not only in the case of traditional companies, but also of those in the start up phase. To be in a...

The quality of the results of a project or a public programme, as well as the quality of project management consist in management process performance.This analysis tool promotes the idea of initiating a new organisational/functional policy '" organisational tools regarding project management, a...

The financial crisis represented the moment when the economists triggered the statements which predicted the change of the current type of economy. The crisis showed the failure of the current economy and it created the premises either for the fundamental change of the current model or for the...