Developed in the 1950s and 1960s, the core concept of the Markowitz model - the homogenous expectations assumption - is important to capital asset pricing models. The Markowitz Model uses the statistical variance of a stock's price as the measure of its risk and its expected return as the...

In the globalization era that we are witnessing, the social problems of welfare and development have become key points on the agendas of European countries and not only. The present economic and political context has proved once more that social welfare represents an essential objective of any...

Starting from the idea of quality in education defined as the level of satisfaction offered by the educational system, a level reached by meeting certain required standards due to the aggregated effort of the participants in the process of learning and of other interested stakeholders, the...

"The strongest argument for interdisciplinarity is the very fact that life is not divided into disciplines." (J. Moffett). "The society in which we live and in which our children will live needs to prepare people to think interdisciplinarily to pass easily from one area to another and to...

The young generation is a key factor that any responsible society should take into account when thinking about building the future. Nowadays, understanding the characteristics, dreams and hopes of what has been called the Y generation is crucial for designing the Europe of tomorrow. The...

Extensively discussed and analysed, globalization has become a phenomenon, unprecedented in the history of the world, by the scale and its evolution. Criticized by some specialists, with positive aspects in view of others others, globalization seems that follows the trajectory

The article proposes an analysis of some European financial markets on the background of the recent crisis, markets that have become very alarmed by the increase of the Euro States' budget deficits and the possible entry of some of them in a situation of not being able to pay rates on debts...

This paper seeks to prove that, on the EU food market, foodstuff quality presently has a very active complex dynamic dimension determined by the current consumer – agricultural and food industry relationship, apart from its technical dimension as derived from quality standards. This...

The article highlights the issue of leadership within the Romanian Orthodox Church, as it is going through a period of redefinition of its values. Connections between organizational culture, management culture and leadership in modern organizations highlight the manner in which leadership is...