Metallurgical industry in Romania in the context of the economic crisis

The magnitude of the economic crisis and the influence on the developments of industrial branches was different.Although European economies are strongly interconnected both internally and externally, the way in which an economic branch has crossed and is trying to overcome the economic crisis has some peculiarities arising from its specificity on the one hand, and on the other hand, from the policies applied in the field. Based on these considerations,the paper examines how Romanian metallurgical industry passes through the economic crisis as compared with other industries. Also based on quantitative analyses performed and taking into account the specific phenomenon of seasonality are presented models of evolution of this industry with horizon in February 2015

A comparative analysis of trade in metallurgical products in 2009 - 2013. Case study: Romania vs. Croatia

Metallurgy is a domain of the secondary sector, which represented for years in Romania, as in other former Communist countries, a very important activity for gross domestic product and employment. Today, many enterprises which were representative in Romania for the metallurgical industry long ago are targets of the sellers of scrap metal, the scrap metal trade representing a segment that has gained momentum in recent years. Croatia, as a member country of the EU has a special contribution in the trade with metallurgical products and we have proposed in this paper to identify which is the level of international trade with metallurgical products of Romania and Croatia, which included a comparison between these countries. For this aim we’ll use the data provided by Eurostat and World Trade Organization (WTO)

The impact of the economic and financial crisis on the evolutionary trend of world crude steel production

Under the circumstances of intensifying globalization of the world economy we can observe a widespread use of crude steel, context in which crude steel production can be considered an indicator characterizing a country’s economic growth. Looking from this perspective, the purpose of this paper is to determine the evolution of world crude steel production and the impact that the economic and financial crisis has had on the evolutionary trend of it. The data used relate to the period 2003 – 2013 and have in view nine regions of development and eleven countries