Deciphering the fluctuations of high frequency birth rates

Here the term "high frequency" refers to daily, weekly or monthly birth data. The fluctuations of daily birth numbers show a succession of spikes and dips which, at least at first sight, looks almost as random as white noise. However in recent times several studies were published, including by the present authors, which have given better insight into how birth is affected by exogenous factors. One of them concerns the way adverse conditions (e.g. famines, diseases, earthquakes, heat waves) temporarily affect the conception capacity of populations, thus producing birth rate troughs 9 months after mortality waves. In addition, religious interdicts (e.g. during the Lent period) lead to reduced conceptions. These as well as other effects raise the hope that we will soon be able to "read" and interpret birth rate patterns just as the Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion managed to decipher many (though not all) hieroglyphs.Comment: 23 pages, 10 figure

Decomposition of the Inequality of Income Distribution by Income Types - Application for Romania

This paper identifies the salient factors that characterize the inequality income distribution for Romania. Data analysis is rigorously carried out using sophisticated techniques borrowed from classical statistics (Theil). Decomposition of the inequalities measured by the Theil index is also performed. This study relies on an exhaustive (11.1 million records for 2014) data-set for total personal gross income of Romanian citizens.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables, 49 reference

INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL COMPONENTS AS CAUSES OF REGIONAL DISPARITIES. A CASE STUDY IN ROMANIA

Starting from a Logit model developed in the past we try to provide empirical support for counties disparities regarding intellectual capital factor influence. The study presents some correlation between economic performance, structure of activity in the county and intellectual components: human capital, organizational capital and customer capital. Because of various differences between counties we may consider that specific models are more indicated to analyze local behaviour. Also the results can give important information about association of counties by factor development and can also show the gaps between administrative organization forms with main purpose: a future more efficient investment and developmentintellectual capital, logit model, human capital, SME, structural capital, counties disparities

Regional Development Disparities and the Provision of Services of General Interest. A Case Study on the Health Care Services Availability in the North-East Region of Romania

This paper proposes an inquiry into the issue of availability of services of general interest, offering as case study the health care services in the North-East region of Romania. The interregional and intraregional (within North-East region) disparities in terms of health care services provision are examined in relation to the overall regional development disparities, confirming that the concern with providing a minimum level of social SGI to all citizens has conducted to health care service disparities lower than those in terms of GDP per inhabitant. The paper also provides relevant evidence on the impact of demography, especially in terms of population density on the availability of health care services

The Contribution of Labour and Capital to Romania's and Moldova's Economic Growth

In the present research we have used the Cobb-Douglas production function in its classical form for analyzing Romania’s and Moldova’s economic growth in relation to the intensity of using the capital and labour, as determinants of the production and GDP level and structure

Testing Wagner’s law for Romania

This study will test Wagner’s law for Romania using both an aggregate measure of public expenditures and a disaggregated form (military expenditures). For the aggregate measure we will estimate the parameters for the models developed by Peacock-Wiseman, Gupta, Goffman, Musgrave and Mann. We will also verify the validity of the Wagner’s law in the case of military expenditures for Romania