The purpose of the article is to illustrate the main characteristics of the corporate governance challenge facing the countries of South-Eastern Europe (SEE) and to subsequently determine and assess the extensiveness and effectiveness of corporate governance regulation in these countries....

The topic of energy security has become an issue of high salience over the last few years. As fears about the stability of the world’s energy resources grow, policymakers tend to merge the security concerns into the climate change policies that they are considering. There are currently three...

International competitiveness receives much attention nowadays, but until recently its assessment has been heavily based on goods trade statistics. This paper addresses the need for competitiveness indicators that cover services trade and sets out initial proposals for developing a multilevel...

European economies are undergoing dramatic changes, determined by the rise in knowledge-intensity of economic activities, as an effect of the escalating pace of technological change, on one hand, and by the increasing globalization of economic affairs, driven by markets liberalization, on the...

Schimbarile structurale ce au loc pe piata energiei în ultimele decenii sunt de natura a spori rolul serviciilor din domeniu, de a stimula dezvoltarea unor piete competitive pentru petrol, gaze, electricitate etc. si de a crea conditii favorabile pentru negocierea produselor energetice într-o...

In an increasingly dynamic market, with complex consumer behavior and product attributes, the fundamental task for destination management is understanding what are the new tourism developments and trends, the new techniques and approaches required to handle them effectively, the new business...

Services have become an important and growing sector of the world economy, accounting for the largest part of value added and employment in the vast majority of developed countries. The importance of the services sector is justified by its sheer weight in the economy (around 67% of EU 25 GDP) as...

The objective of this research is assessing the creative industries’ positioning in Romania, regarding the other EU member states. The methodology proposed by Florida and Tinagli (2004) for computing the Euro-Creativity Index is being extended, both by adding new indexes we consider more...

The paper indicates that, on one hand the EU was used by Romania more as a commitment device for service sector policy reform then the WTO agreement (GATS) and, on the other hand, that even if Romania has attained a high degree of services trade liberalization, as well as a significant degree of...