THE IMPACT OF CULTURAL-CREATIVE INDUSTRIES ON THE ECONOMIC GROWTH - A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH

Culture is a powerful tool to communicate values and to promote objectives of public interest that are broader than wealth creation. The economy of culture entails both cultural and creative sectors. It has to be noted that, along with the development of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector, the contribution of culture to the economy has gradually been acknowledged, in particular with the development of the cultural industries. One way of measuring the economy of culture focuses on the value added to the economy. Also, we present several statistical indicators that quantify the dimension of the cultural-creative field, and identify an econometrical multiple model that reveals the relationship between some of them. In the article it is applied the analysis of variance method in order to identify the existence of significant differences between geographical and between linguistic-cultural European regions, according to the values of some of the statistical indicators.economy of culture, cultural-creative sector, value-added, cultural employment, cultural consumption expenditure, households' cultural expenditure, publishing turnover in manufacturing

A procedure for the estimation of total radioactivity in water

One of the essential duties of the State of California Department of Civil Defense in times of nuclear weapon attack will be radiological monitoring. The workers in this field will operate from a mobile laboratory truck, equipped with radiation counters and meters, but containing only the simplest of chemical equipment. One of their main problems will be the determination of the total amount of radioactive material, especially fallout of fission products, in a water sample. As yet no method of analysis both simple and rapid enough for application to mobile operation has been developed. It was the purpose of this research to develop and refine a simple, rapid, quantitative procedure for the detection and estimation of the total amount of radioactive material contained in a water sample, using only readily available and preferably inexpensive apparatus. However, no attempt has been made to either qualitatively or quantitatively determine any of the possible individual constituents

American growth and Napoleonic Wars

Four years after the French Revolution, in 1793 a series of wars among France and other major powers of Europe began and they lasted until 1815. There is disagreement among economic historians about the effects of these wars on the trend of US economic growth. This paper aims to answer the following question. Did America as a neutral nation take advantage of economic possibilities caused by Europe at war through trade? To put it differently, this paper questions whether there was an export-led growth due to the war. To answer this question, we re-examined the export-led growth hypothesis for the period 1790-1860 using the ARDL methodology. Based on this methodology, a cointegrated relationship is found among the variables of real GDP, labor, exports and exchange rates. The results suggest that the economic growth of the US was not export-driven. In addition, parallel to the results of unit root tests with structural breaks, the coefficient of the dummy variable was statistically significant in the long run, implying that the war did have a significant effect on the economic growth trend of the US

Rotation velocity: Measure of efficiency in using funds

L’efficience de l’utilisation des moyens du patrimoine et des capitaux peut être mesurée et analysée, d’une part, à l’aide des indicateurs synthétiques comme la chiffre d’affaire qui revient à 1000 lei patrimoine et capital, la valeur ajoutée qui revient à 1000 lei patrimoine, le profit qui revient à 1000 lei patrimoine ainsi de suite, et d’autre part, à l’aide des indicateurs qui caractérisent la vitesse de rotation des éléments du patrimoine et des capitaux. La vitesse de rotation peut être déterminée aussi bien par les éléments de l’actif et de l’actif total que par les éléments du passif du bilan. Les indicateurs principaux qui sont pris en considération pour déterminer et analyser la vitesse de rotation sont: •le nombre moyen de rotations; •la durée moyenne, calculée en jours, d’une rotation; •les indicateurs qui mesurent les effets économiques et financiers de la modification du nombre moyen de rotations et de la durée moyenne d’une rotation. Concernant les deux premiers indicateurs de la vitesse de rotation, entre eux il y a une relation de proportionnalité inverse mais ils ont des significations différents et bien determinées. Nous y présentons les modalités de déterminer les indicateurs de la vitesse de rotation des moyens du patrimoine et des capitaux, les modalités de quantifier et analyser l’efficience de l’utilisation des moyens du patrimoine et des capitaux par rapport à la vitesse de rotation, y compris préciser les sources des informations nécessaires pour calculer les indicateurs de la vitesse de rotation.Funds rotation; efficiency

INSTITUTIONAL MANAGEMENT OF EUROPEAN STATISTICS AND OF THEIR QUALITY - CURRENT CONCERNS AT EUROPEAN LEVEL

The issues referring to official statistics quality and reliability became the main topics of debates as far as statistical governance in Europe is concerned. The Council welcomed the Commission Communication to the European Parliament and to the Council « Towards robust quality management for European Statistics » (COM 211), appreciating that the approach and the objective of the strategy would confer the European Statistical System (ESS) the quality management framework for the coordination of consolidated economic policies. The Council pointed out that the European Statistical System management was improved during recent years, that progress was noticed in relation with high quality statistics production and dissemination within the European Union, but has also noticed that, in the context of recent financial crisis, certain weaknesses were identified, particularly related to quality management general framework.„Greece Case” proved that progresses were not enough for guaranteeing the complete independence of national statistical institutes and entailed the need for further consolidating ESS governance. Several undertakings are now in the preparatory stage, in accordance with the Commission Communication; these actions are welcomed, but the question arise: are these sufficient for definitively solving the problem?The paper aims to go ahead in the attempt of identifying a different way, innovative (courageous!) on the long run, towards an advanced institutional structure of ESS, by setting up the European System of Statistical Institutes, similar to the European System of Central Banks, that would require a change in the Treaty