In a period of very low fertility, effective family and childcare support policy measures are needed. From a wide range of instruments available to government intervention, we focus on public expenditures effects on short-term fertility. Using a sample of 28 European countries in a panel...

This paper is studying the impact of public budget deficit on the economic growth. We have tested the connection between budget deficit and economic growth, using econometrical analysis (the Pool Data Model). Within this framework, we have quantified the intensity of connections between public...

The way in which the social subjects take decisions, the interactions established between these, the web of social institutions and rules, the architecture of the power relationships between the various “points of social coagulation” have as a foundation a complex set of determinants, in...

Economic policies and, particularly, fiscal policies are not designed and implemented in an “empty space”: the structural characteristics of the economic systems, the institutional architecture of societies, the cultural paradigm and the power relations between different social groups define...

In a period of very low fertility, effective family and childcare support policy measures are needed. From a wide range of instruments available to government intervention, we focus on public expenditures effects on short-term fertility. Using a sample of 28 European countries in a panel...

In last decades, the globalization process and the removal of barriers on internationalcirculation of persons inside the European Union fostered an increase in migration from Romaniatowards other European countries. Using a panel framework, our estimates showed that both pushand pull factors are...

This paper aims to provide Romanian firm-level evidence concerning the investmentdecisions - financial leverage - growth opportunities relation. Using traditional panel datatechniques on a sample of 67 companies listed at Bucharest Stock Exchange, we found thatincreasing debt and firm size have...