Published in Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University - Economics
The safety management system in 16 Estonian manufacturing companies (eight certified and eight noncertified in OHSAS (occupational health and safety management systems standard) 18001; four of the last corporated to the foreign firms) were investigated using the MISHA method. The results showed that if the advanced safety methods (like proposed by ...
Published in Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University - Economics
Taxation is a major factor in political, economic, social and fiscal policy decisions. The current study looks at the eurozone Member States in order to establish if fiscal convergence towards the Maastricht criteria leads to tax convergence. The research method is sigma-convergence based on three different variation measures (the coefficient of va...
Published in Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University - Economics
Many thinkers made attempts to explain differences in economic development between countries, and point out what should be done to foster development. We review briefly some spectacular theories focused on these fundamental problems. We use the tools of economic analysis and the methods characteristic especially for institutional economics and econ...
Published in Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University - Economics
Nowadays, information flows are powerfully augmented by Social Media. This situation brings along the adjustment of the traditional information security threats to this new environment, as well as the emergence of new characteristic dangers. The purpose of this study is to learn about Generation Y students’ attitude to risks and security measures w...
Published in Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University - Economics
The issue of economic disparities within the European Union economies is not new, it is actually a topical issue. Unfortunately, the EU enlargement has determined an even stronger deepening of the regional disparities, because in the absence of adequate regional development policies, the financial instruments have proved to be ineffective. Recent s...
Published in Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University - Economics
Difficulties related to the problem of evaluating the economic security / insecurity, including the threshold of economic security / insecurity, namely the impossibility of giving an analytical description of a criterion entirely made up of a set of indicators describing the degree of economic security / insecurity, makes more and more researchers,...
Published in Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University - Economics
The present article describes the key elements of the workplace harassment issues in general and from the Romanian official documents and regulations perspective. The divergences between these regulations and the international approaches on workplace harassment are analysed, considering the practical implications for managers and human resources de...
Published in Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University - Economics
This paper examines the implications of fiscal rules measured through the Fiscal Rules Index and fiscal institutions that supervise fiscal policies on key aspects of fiscal policies such as public debt and budget deficits. Our goal was to identify the specific links between fiscal rules, institutions and fiscal policies, to support any rethinking o...
Published in Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University - Economics
This study introduces some aspects regarding the link between monetary policy and economic growth, through a rule well known in the literature which is named Taylor’s rule and through the concept of sacrifice ratio which encompasses the impact of the cost of disinflation on the economic growth of a country. In this paper, we rely on estimates of th...
Published in Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University - Economics
The study focuses on the effectiveness of endorsement strategies in the beauty service industry. We refer an effective endorsement strategy as a strategy where the endorser is perceived as trustful and we assume that trustworthiness leads to an attitudinal or behavioural change. This quantitative research aims to identify the changes in attitude, p...
