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SURVEY ARTICLE » The Impossibility of a Generalized Darwinism: Comments On Darwin’s Conjecture By: Paul FUDULU Keywords: Economic Theory, Darwin’s Conjecture RESEARCH ARTICLE » Causal Returns to Schooling and Individual Heterogeneity By: Friedhelm PFEIFFER, Winfried POHLMEIER Keywords: human capital investments » Evolutions in the Accounting – Taxation (Dis)Connection in Romania, After 1990 By: Costel ISTRATE JEL: M41, H22 Keywords: Romania, Accounting, Taxation, (Dis)connection » Analysis of the Timeliness of Financial Statements Submitted by Companies of the Spanish Continuous Market By: Cinta BORRERO, Enrique BONSON JEL: G2, G1 » The Co-Movements of National Stock Markets and Global Portfolio Diversification: 2001-2010 By: Ilhan MERIC, Benjamin H. EICHHORN, Charles W. McCCALL, Gulser MERIC JEL: G10, G15 Keywords: Co-Movements of Global Stock Markets, Global Portfolio Diversification » Banking Deregulation and Financial Stability in Emerging Market Economies By: Adnen CHOCKRI, Zied AKROUT JEL: G18, G01, G28 Keywords: deregulation - financial stability - financial crises » The Impact of Real Exchange Rate Volatility on South African Exports to the United States (U.S.): A Bounds Test Approach By: Lira SEKANTSI JEL: F10, F31 Keywords: exchange rate volatility, Autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL), Generalised Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) Bounds testing, unit root, Error Correction model, Cointegration » Contagion in International Stock Markets During the sub Prime Mortgage Crisis By: Hsien-Yi LEE JEL: G150 Keywords: financial crises, Contagion effect, sub prime mortgage, correlation coefficients, stock markets » Governance Quality and MFIS Repayment Performance By: Ben Soltane BASSEM JEL: G30, G32 Keywords: Microfinance, Repayment Performance, Governance Quality, Aggregated Index » RMB Devaluation and Asean5 Countries’ Exports to the US: Complementary or Substitute? By: Diyah PUTRIANI, Tri WIDODO JEL: F42, F31, F33, F36 Keywords: volatility, Cointegration, ASEAN5, Renminbi (RMB) » Human Resource Management and Employee Job Satisfaction: Evidence from the Nigerian Banking Industry By: Omotayo Adewale OSIBANJO, Oladele Joseph KEHIDE, Abolaji Joachim ABIODUN Keywords: job satisfaction, Training & Development, Working Condition » Relationship Between Private and Public Investment in R&D: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis By: Adnen CHOCKRI, Tarek SADRAOUI JEL: F42, O32, C33, D83, O33 Keywords: R&D investment; Technology Spillovers; Complementarity; Economic growth; Dynamic Panel Data; Private investment; Public investment; R&D cooperation » The Health Component of the Human Capital and the Economic Output By: Olimpia NEAGU JEL: I15, J24 Keywords: human capital, health status, economic results CASE STUDY » The Influence of Experiential Exercises on Attitudes Toward Entrepreneurship: The Case of Bangladesh By: Khan N. MORSHED, Victoria A. SEITZ Keywords: Entrepreneurship Education, Entrepreneur, Benefits of Entrepreneurship Education, Experiential Assignments. » Foreign Direct Investment and Financial Resilience: Case of the Mediterranean Countries By: Semia RACHID JEL: F34, F21, F30, G01 Keywords: financial crisis, indebtedness, volatility, Foreign direct investment » An Attempt to Capture Leptokurtic of Returns and to Model Its Volatility: The Case of Beirut Stock Exchange By: Elie BOURI JEL: C01, C15, C32, C52, C81 Keywords: volatility, Beirut Stock Exchange, GARCH, EGARCH, Leverage Effect ESSAY » Merit Goods at Fifty: Reexamining Musgrave’s Theory in the Context of Health Policy By: Roger Lee MENDOZA » A Broader Look on Migration: A Two Way Interaction Between Development and Migration in the Country Of Origin By: Cristian ÎNCALŢĂRĂU, Liviu-George MAHA, Sorin-Stefan MAHA JEL: O15, J11, F22 Keywords: Labour market, international migration, economic consequences, origin country, remittances, return migration » Framing the European Union: The Status Quo Shift By: Raluca OPRESCU JEL: R11, O52, R50 Keywords: economic integration, the core-periphery model, European Single Market, uneven development, regional competitiveness » The Importance of Oil on the International Market By: Irina PETRUCĂ JEL: F19, F20, F50, F51, Q40 Keywords: Influence, oil, international market » The Regional Climate of Foreign Direct Investments in Romania By: Raluca Georgiana POPESCU JEL: R11, F2, F21 Keywords: foreign direct investments, Regional disparities, Agglomerations » Bad Categorization Kills Good Marketing Strategy Why Product Categorization is Important in Electronic Commerce By: Sorana Varvara MITYKO JEL: L81, M31 Keywords: Product Classification Models, Marketing Strategy, Electronic Commerce, Product Category, Literature Review BOOK REVIEW » Ion Pohoaţă, Landmarks in Institutional Economics, Economic Publishing House, Bucharest, 2009, 335p. By: Oana-Ramona SOCOLIUC