Grupul de Economie Aplicata
Group of Applied Economics
NEWS
A Romanian contribution to the EU reform budget debate initiated by the European Commission
The Study (Managing diversity for a growing Europe: a Romanian view on the EU budgetary review process)

GEA Self-Assessment Report 2004-2007 (in Romanian)


GEA launched the Report on Romania and Lisbon Agenda, the 5th edition

5th GEA Report on Romania and the Lisbon Agenda
Comunicat de presa






Global Competitiveness Report 2007-2008, published by the World Economic Forum (GEA is the partner organization for Romania):

Comunicat de Presa GEA
General Press Release



GEA has published "The Handbook for Regional Competitiveness Assessment”, a result of the GOF - finance project "Romania – Building Regional Assessment Capacity in Line with the Lisbon Agenda"


GEA hosts, on November 28th, 2007, a public conference to launch the 5th edition of its report "Romania and the Lisbon Agenda". The event will take place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Bucharest, from 10 a.m.


GEA is the local partner selected by Arthur D. Little to contribute to the study "Romania Competitiveness Project", financed by IFC


GEA is undertaking a research commissioned by the Association of Leasing and Non-Banking Financial Services on the topic of credit growth dynamics and potential in Romania.


GEA is undertaking a research for The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW), within the GDN Southeast Europe network, on the impact of flat tax reform on inequality in income distribution.


GEA completed a study for the European Investment Bank on the financing gap for SMEs in Romania.


Presentations given by professors John Dunning, Rajneesh Narula, Klaus Meyer (Reading University), Ulf Andersson (Uppsala University) and Matija Rojec (Ljubljana University) at the GEA - NEC conference "The Role of Foreign Direct Investments in An Emerging Economy", held in Bucharest on March 16th 2007.

The papers debated during THE CONFERENCE "Extending EU Labour Markets Eastward"

- organized by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and Group of Applied Economics
- Bucharest, 24- 26 November 2005

PANEL I
Competitiveness through low wages vs. higher wages for stimulating demand
Richard Jackman - The London School of Economics

PANEL II
Migration vs. Industrial Relocation
Prof. Dr. Henning Klodt - Kiel Institute for World Economics

PANEL III
Working conditions in the informal sector
Manuela Stanculescu

PANEL IV
Temporary emigration from Romanian villages
Determinants and rural development policy implications
Dumitru Sandu - University of Bucharest

Lessons for the Emerging Markets from Poland's Great Change
Grzegorz W. Kolodko

Competition of production-locations in Europe and its consequences on employment
Béla Galgoczi - European Trade Union Institute for Research, Education and Health and Safety

FINANCING INSTITUTIONS