The sustainable growth of economic competitiveness as a whole and of industry, in particular, is of paramount importance for Romania. A look at the literature reveals that although there is no consensus in defining and measuring competitiveness, many studies focus on competitiveness i) in a...

The purpose of this paper is to offer an analysis of the behaviour of the money demand, inflation and their determinants, with a focus on the short-term impact of external shocks. Taking into account the weak structure of the Romanian economy (Dobrescu, 1997) the authors confined the study to...

The purpose of this paper is to offer an effective instrument for the simulation and research of money demand and its determinants, with a focus on the short-term impact of changes in parameters of monetary, foreign exchange and wage policies as well the impact of external shocks. Taking into...

The study comprises a series of analyses of the Romanian foreign trade competitiveness over the period 1991 - 2001. The analyses regard sectors, countries and markets. The Revealed Comparative Advantage index (RCA) was used in order to point out existing comparative advantages by sector. High...