FISCAL POLICY SUSTAINABILITY IN ROMANIA

The paper is focused on aspects regarding fiscal policy sustainability inRomania. Analyzing the theoretical foundations of fiscal policy sustainability it could beidentified a methodology for econometric tests to be carried out and to put forward de factopublic debt long-run situation at the country level. In this direction, we carried outstationarity tests for the stock of the gross public debt and cointegration tests for the publicrevenues end public expenditures flows for the case of Romania.fiscal policy, sustainability, stationarity tests, cointegration tests

CORPORATE INCOME TAXATION EFFECTS ON INVESTMENT DECISIONS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

The link between investment decisions undertaken by economic agents and corporateincome (profit) taxation is well documented in theoretical studies realized so far. But, the empiricalevidence is very mixed and do not provide clear answers regarding the magnitude of the taxationeffects on investment and the proper transmission channels for these effects. So, we propose toinvestigate the effects of corporate income (profit) tax burden on investment decision for a samplecomposed from EU Member States.corporate income taxation, investment, q theory

SEARCHING FOR HUMAN CAPITAL DETERMINANTS OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT INFLOWS IN THE EU NEW MEMBER STATES

The specific levels and patterns of foreign direct investment in the Central and EasternEuropean countries could not be fully explained taking into account only the traditional economicdeterminants, as shown in the empirical studies undertaken so far. Hence, we search for someforeign direct investment determinants related with human capital, using panel data techniques, andshow that some of the human capital measures are positively correlated with foreign directinvestment inflows in Central and Eastern Europe.foreign direct investment, human capital

AGENCY, ASSOCIATIONS AND CULTURE: A THALE OF STATE AND SOCIETY

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 which the “pure” economic factors have an important, but not unique role. Thus, this paper intends to draft a possible analytical framework, capable of allowing the stress of some existing connections between the cultural variables, the social actions and the role of the public power. Heavy indebted to OLSON and NOZICK, the starting point is made out by a version of the mandate theory, within the way in which society, as a whole, as well as its individual components, delegates a certain set of social responsibilities to the public authorities, based on some social utility functions, which include the characteristics of the dominant cultural model. Part I of the paper deals with the elements of the theoretical foundation, elements resumed by a set of critical postulates and a special definition of state as the dominant agency in a social space and also of the negotiation/parallel associations. Part II is an attempt to examine some empirical evidences in the favor of some results derived from this foundation. The main conclusion of the paper could be resumed by the idea that trying to describe the interactions between state and society without taking into the account the characteristics of the cultural paradigm is equivalent to talk about Hamlet without mentioning the prince of Denmark.agency, negotiation/parallel associations, cultural paradigm

THE FISCAL POLICY AND THE STABILITY OF THE NOMINAL SECTOR: THE ROMANIAN CASE

The fiscal policies in the contemporaneous economic systems heavy influence both the real and nominal sectors. These effects could be located at the primary distribution of the social resources as will as at level their redistribution one. The aims of this paper are: (1) to review the literature of the main conceptual frameworks which link the fiscal policy and the dynamic of real sector, especially on the inflation side (2) to advance an empirical analyze of these link for the Romanian case and (3) to draw some conclusion about desirable framework of the fiscal policy for the current period in the perspective of Romanian access to European Union.Impact, inflation, fiscal policy, econometric analyze, fiscal deficit, budgetary sold

The Fiscal Policy and the Stability of the nominal Sector: The Romanian Case (revisited version)

The fiscal policies in the contemporaneous economic systems heavy influence both the real and nominal sectors. These effects could be located at the primary distribution of the social resources as will as at level their redistribution one. The aims of this paper are: (1) to review the literature of the main conceptual frameworks which link the fiscal policy and the dynamic of real sector, especially on the inflation side (2) to advance an empirical analyze of these link for the Romanian case and (3) to draw some conclusion about desirable framework of the fiscal policy for the current period in the perspective of Romanian access to European Union.Impact, inflation, fiscal policy, econometric analyze, fiscal deficit, budgetary sold

The perspective of spatio-temporal variability of Romanian economy in European space

Interrelation of economic and financial phenomena and processes, characterized by varying degrees of intensity of events in time and space, generates, sometimes, difficulties for public authorities of all times, both economic and noneconomic nature. Disparities between countries and economic disparities and also the impact of adverse shocks on the economy represent in recent years an intense topic of debate for researchers and professionals, making up the analysis of their economic theories that shape it in time and space dynamics of various economic indicators. Since every economic size is characterized as spatial and temporal dimensions and relations of dependency with other economic indicators, the statistical approach to spatial and temporal variability of the Romanian economy, sought to highlight this trend compared with the EU, as level of development, we proposed using an index composed Romania - European Union. Outcomes show that the Romanian economy is not prepared to face competitive pressure from European Union forces, is still facing eternal problem of solving cyclical temporary shocks.economic and financial phenomena, economic disparities, cyclical temporary shocks

A NEW APPROACH OF THE BUDGET DEFICIT: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS

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 the borders of these policies. This paper tries to deal with these borders, to describe their nature and the implications of their existence to the fiscal policies’ quality and impact at a theoretical level as well as at an empirical one. The main results of the proposed analysis support the ideas that the mentioned variables matters both for the social mandate entrusted by the society to the state and thus to role and functions of the state and for the economic growth as a support of the resources collected at distributed by the public authorities.budget deficit, structural characteristics, economic freedom, institutions, cultural paradigm, political freedom

Empirical Evidencies for the Budget Deficits Co-Integration in the Old European Union Members: Are there any Interlinkages in Fiscal Policies?

In the last years, the fiscal harmonization among the European Union members has become a pillar of economic integration and of fiscal and financial stability in the European area. The institutional changes, the semi-failure of the “old” Stability and Growth Pact as well as the recent waves of enlargements all these were put a greater emphasis on this issue inducing a higher pressure for fiscal discipline. In this context, the objective of the paper is to examines recent empirical evidences for bilateral and multilateral integration between fiscal policies, as this are synthesised by budget deficits, of old European Union members in the framework of the Johansen co-integration procedure with a preliminary appliance of the principal component analysis. The study finds that the dynamic of European fiscal policies takes place under the impact of some common driving forces which leads to a differentiate behaviour of two sub regional-groups individualized by the budget deficit series evolutionary patterns. Overall, it concludes that there could be find empirical evidences to support the thesis that a process of fiscal integration is currently running at least at the level of old European Union countries.Fiscal policies in E.U., budget deficits, co-integration, Johansen Test

A cultural model of performance at the central government level

The paper intends to draw a possible framework for evaluating the performance of the administration at the central government level. We propose a simple pool-data model in which we tried to make a connection between main macroeconomic variables that are in part the result of government actions in the pursuit of its social end economic objectives and some variables that are reflecting the social-cultural-political dimensions of government decisions.Performance, efficiency, government, culture, politics