Based on two Romanian household surveys, we analyse the structure of households’ income by sources: main job, secondary job, and hidden activities. After conceptual clarification and explanation of the methodology we used, we estimate the size of informal economy, analyse the relationship...

Economic theory tells that a command system allocates resources poorly because of the impossibility of economic calculation. Therefore, once prices are freed and start to operate at quasi-equilibrium (market-clearing) levels, the hidden inefficiencies come into the open and a massive resource...

The paper tries to estimate the natural rate of unemployment in the case of Romania, concentrating on implementing an econometric schedule in order to estimate the value of the NAIRU. One of the major problems in literature is that of identification, and the solution could be in finding certain...

The paper aims to model the underground economy using two different models: one based on the labor supply method and a generalized model for the allocation of time. The model based on the labor supply method is conceived as a simulating one in order to determine some reasonable thresholds of the...

An important goal of the study is to demonstrate that the actual transition in the East European economies is going to be integrated into a more general process of a long-run transition, which also includes the Western economies. The author designed two models for capturing stagflation and for...

The study represents an attempt to build a generalized sustainability function. After that, a model was developed in order to integrate the sustainability function within the general economic growth context. The author conceived two partial models (their parameters are being estimated on the...

The paper analyzes the dynamics and structure of GDP in Romania during the transition period. Two simulation scenarios are proposed on the basis of a standard production function. The first simulation uses an augmented production function with FDI and exports, while the second simulation uses a...

One of the most significant impediments for short-term forecasts is the frequency of publishing GDP. At present, national institutes of statistics are publishing officially registered GDP only quarterly. In our study, we tried to build a composite indicator based on usually monthly data and to...

The paper presents a high-frequency (monthly) forecast for six macroeconomic indicators: industrial output, inflation, unemployment rate, monetary base, households’ savings and exchange rate.

Using a Romanian household survey, the authors analysed the structure of households' income by sources (main job, secondary job, and informal activities), beginning by focusing on the data and methodological problems, certain clarifications being necessary. Afterwards, the size of informal...