Despite the fact that Romania has the lowest tax revenues as GDP percentage in the EU, the highest levels of tax evasion, and one of the worst performing tax collection systems, a recent experimental study on the willingness of subjects to comply with their tax obligations under various...

The economic recession starting in 2007 with the collapse of the US Bank Lehman Brothers triggered waves of economic shock across the world. Various states were hit more or less hard through different mechanisms and reacted with different intensities to adjust to the crisis situation. In this...

The political economy of Europe – both West and East – has generated many “models” of enviable performance since its recovery from World War II in 1945 and, once again, since the end of the Cold War in 1989. A large number, perhaps a majority of its member states, have been declared...

The Asset Mobility Model (AMM) represents one of the most important theoretical models developed to explain the strategic response of states to the modifications of tax policies in other states. One of the most significant predictions derived from the AMM is the “race to the bottom” in the...

The process of EU enlargement caused massive policy adaptation in both the old EU members and the new members, both before and after the point of accession. This article explores evolutions in the area of corporate and personal income taxation and its relationship with the modification in the...

In this article I analyze the means through which the characteristics of the unions affected the short and long terms patterns of FDI inflows in the post-communist countries. I investigate the effects of three variables describing this structure: Effective Number of Unuion Confederation...

In a previous article (Todor 2015), I have discussed various theories focusing on the effects of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) on structuring the Varieties of Capitalism in the post-communist countries. I have also analyzed the relationship of this literature with the Global Network of...

Although the Romanian institutional landscape and its policies have dramatically improved since the 1990s, the low institutional capacity of its tax system remains mysteriously constant, despite continued efforts at improvement in this area and the fact that experimental data show that Romanians...

The current volume represents the outcome of the International Conference “Comparative Public Administration and Management – Innovation, Change, Partnership in Social Media Era,” organised in Bucharest on 26th June 2015. The conference has been organised by the National University of...