Politici de finanțare locală

Ce sunt politicile financiare ? Performanţa financiară a unui oraş este greu de evaluat. Spre deosebire sectorul privat, autorităţile locale nu pot calcula profitul, care să poată măsura performanţa lor financiară. În ultimii ani, multe organizaţii publice au adoptat diferite tipuri de management prin obiective (MBO) ca metodă de măsurare a performanţei programelor şi serviciilor lor. Sub un astfel de sistem consiliul local şi managerii lucrează împreună pentru a alege care sunt obiectivele oraşului, precum şi normele care permit oficialilor să decidă cât de bine sunt satisfăcute aceste obiective. Odată stabilite normele şi obiectivele, performanţa este evaluată prin compararea rezultatelor cu normele.</p

The Tax Reform of Romania Since the Transition to Market Economy

<p>This paper is trying to analyze the financial and fiscal reforms in Romania since 1989. The study is based on the necessity to be built a new fiscal system that meets the market economy’s requirements. The main concentration is focused on the debate of choosing tax policy. There are presented the two models of variation of income tax policy followed by Eastern European countries: flat income tax – a simple, efficient, but inequitable system (Estonia, Russia, Romania, etc.) and progressive income tax – a complex, inefficient, but equitable system (Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovenia, etc). At the end of this article are presented, also the main advantages and disadvantages of this these tax policies based on national statistics and other countries experiences.</p

Rolul statului în economie

The current article discusses aspects related to intervention or nonintervention of state in economy and also realizes an historic approach regarding this subject. The intervention of the state is considered a good thing when it stimulates equity and economic efficiency. A possible problem still present in Romania is that intervention or nonintervention of the state in economy is based on political interests</p

Estimation of Potential GDP and output Gap. Comparative Perspective

The purpose of the analysis is to assess the impact of the crisis on the potential output and output gaps, to study their evolution by using a comparative approach for a sample of EU countries that were in majority included recently in financial assistance and macroeconomic adjustment programmes. The potential GDP growth rates calculated using the Cobb Douglas production function and Hodrick-Prescott methodology, decelerated substantially across the board in the countries studied once the international economic and financial crisis hit, recording even negative rates of growth in Cyprus, Greece, Portugal, Italy and Spain. In addition to the specific factors that characterise each country, there is a series of common features that will affect the developments of the potential GDP on a long-term basis, such as the increase of global risk aversion correlated with the reduction of the banking exposures, the slow economic recovery in the EU, and last but not least the incoming ageing process, which will exert an additional negative impact on the growth potential of the EU member states. The article makes a series of economic policy recommendations to promote key measures aiming to increase the flexibility of the goods, services, and labour markets, to improve the prioritisation of public expenditures especially capital spending, and to improve the management of the public assets including real estate and public buildings by promoting a mix of measures including privatisation, monetisation and a wider involvement of the private sector in their management

Students’s Visitors – Among the Unexplored Types of Local Tourism?

Universities have the capacity to attract students from a vast geographical area, thus resulting in new residences for its host city. This is a well-known effect especially for major and prestigious universities located in relatively small locations. Babeș-Bolyai University in the city of Cluj-Napoca is such an example. Using our survey data, we explore a form of local tourism left rather unexplored – the students’ visitors. Our results show that only 9.3% of these visitors spend the night at a hotel or hostel making this type of tourism little known and mostly untraceable for official tourism data. An estimated 7.5 million Euros were spent only by the BBU students’ visitors in the city of Cluj-Napoca in the year of 2015.</p

Studiu privind execuția bugetului municipiului Cluj-Napoca

This paper ”Study regarding the execution of Cluj-Napoca local budget” is trying to present the spending and incomes evolution for last five fiscal years. This study is realized based on data from Cluj-Napoca City Hall. The analysis was made based on the calculation of some index, of realization rate, weights from total and based on the incomes actualization at inflation.</p

Cluj-Napoca without Students: An Estimation of The Gap in the City’s Economy

In the new context of COVID-19, the authors assess the economic gap of the absence of students from Cluj-Napoca for one month due to the pandemic quarantine and isolation. The economic gap is presented in terms of estimated expenditures that did not occur, on an average monthly basis. The estimations are based on the survey data carried among Babeș-Bolyai University students that assessed students’ expenditure for the year of 2015 in Cluj-Napoca. Our results suggest that due to the absence of the student population from Cluj-Napoca, around 33.4 million Euros is the expected amount of loss per month through spending that does not occur.</p

Finanțarea învățământului superior în România în perioada 2007-20131

The paper aims at summarizing the form and sources of financing for public universities in Romania, its specific legislation and changes that occur on national education level, such as the continuous decrease in the total number of students. University’s finances are placed in the context of the economic crisis, the period under analysis being 2007-2013. Facing a situation of acute underfunding and a lack of legislative consistency, an economic crisis can have much stronger effects in the long run. The situation of higher education in Romania is presented in the European context; some particularities of Babeș-Bolyai University’s revenues are presented on national scale.</p

Necesitatea investigării impactului economic al instituțiilor învățământului superior în România

Universities’ economic impact and their importance to the surrounding area constitute an old and well-established discourse in the Western countries, yet almost entirely absent among Romanian universities. The paper aims at summarizing some of this international debate and its roots, presenting some methodological approaches in investigating the economic impact of a university to a certain area. Such a complex subject certainly has triggered the interest of various researchers, who have identified a series of factors that underline the imperative of investigating the subject. The severe underfunding, the lack of legislative consistency, the demographic realities and the economic crisis make the necessity of investigating the economic impact among Romanian universities even more prominent nowadays.</p

Place Marketing. Cluj-Napoca City Case Study

<p>Recently, places have become like businesses. Forces such as globalization and the new 21st century technology lead to the mobility of the resources. In this newly created situation places found themselves in a position of competing with each other. In order to face this competition places incorporate new concepts such as “marketing” into their development strategies. Concepts such as ‘place competition’, ‘distinguish and competitive advantages of the place’, ‘the brand of the place’ and ‘co-branding’ are key aspects discussed in this paper regarding the case of Cluj-Napoca. In this study we focus on elaborating this key aspects of place marketing from the citizens’ perception. We asked the citizens about their perception concerning: the most representative city brands, the importance of these brands in promoting the city’s image, the differences between their city and others and their perception towards the existence of place competition.</p