CURRENT ISSUE - 14 REBS, Volume VII, Issue 2

RESEARCH ARTICLE

»	IMPACT OF REMITTANCES ON FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH ASIA By: Syed Jawad Hussain SHAHZAD, Noureen ADNAN, Sajid ALI, Naveed RAZA Keywords: Economic growth, Financial Development, Remittance inflows, South Asia

»	DOES A DIFFERENT YEAR OF STUDY MEANS DIFFERENT IMPORTANT CREDIBILITY DIMENSIONS? A STUDY ON THE DIMENSIONS OF CREDIBILITY OF ONLINE SALES WEBSITES By: Oana ŢUGULEA JEL: M39, M31 Keywords: website, Credibility, Regression analysis, Dimension, Construct

»	NBA ENDGAME: DO SALARIES MATTER? By: Frank TENKORANG, Bree L. DORITY, Eddery LAM JEL: J3, D2 Keywords: Salary dispersion; labor economics; National Basketball Association

»	BRAND LOYALTY – A DETERMINANT OF BRAND EQUITY By: Claudia BOBÂLCĂ, Daniela-Cornelia APACHIŢEI, Adriana MANOLICĂ, Teodora ROMAN JEL: M20, M31 Keywords: brand equity, brand loyalty, brand value, brand awareness, brand associations

INTERNATIONAL PRICES, MONETARY AND INCOME SHOCKS: A SVAR MODEL OF THE EXTERNAL TRADE CHANNEL IN AFRICAN ECONOMIES
By: Giscard ASSOUMOU ELLA, Cécile BASTIDON, Philippe GILLES
JEL: F14, C22, F43, O11
Keywords: African economies, international prices shocks, international income shocks, FED monetary policy international transmission, external trade channel, SVAR model

MONETARY, BANKING AND FINANCIAL ISSUES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EU MEMBER COUNTRIES

»	RETAIL PAYMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH FOR DEVELOPED AND EMERGING EUROPEAN COUNTRIES By: Aniela BOJAN, Emilia-Anuta COROVE, Ioan TRENCA JEL: C23, G01, G21 Keywords: Economic growth, retail payment system, random effects

»	CONTRIBUTION TO SYSTEMIC RISK OF THE EUROPEAN BANKING GROUPS WITH SUBSIDIARIES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE By: Simona MUTU JEL: C51, C22, G01, G21, G32 Keywords: systemic risk, Conditional Value at Risk, quantile regression, tail risk, capital adequacy, CEE cross-border banking

»	ASPECTS REGARDING THE EVOLUTION OF NOMINAL AND REAL CONVERGENGE BEFORE AND AFTER ADHESION TO EURO ZONE By: Lucian Claudiu ANGHEL, Florina PÎNZARU, Mihaela DINU JEL: F33 Keywords: market share, nominal convergence, real convergence, effective real exchange rate, price competitiveness

»	THE MACROECONOMIC EFFECTS OF FISCAL POLICY. A BVAR APPROACH By: Ioana BOICIUC JEL: E62, H30 Keywords: fiscal policy, Bayesian estimation, VAR model

»	SYSTEMIC RISK CAUSED BY ROMANIAN FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES DURING FINANCIAL CRISIS: A COVAR APPROACH By: Dumitru-Cristian OANEA, Gabriela-Victoria ANGHELACHE JEL: D81, G32 Keywords: financial crisis, systemic risk, correlation, financial investment fund, CoVaR, Value at Risk

»	THE MONETARY POLICY UNDER THE IMPACT OF THE RECENT GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS By: Angela ROMAN, Diana PURCEL JEL: E58, E44, E52 Keywords: financial crisis, central banks, unconventional monetary policy, exit strategies

»	FINANCIAL REFORM IN (EASTERN) EUROPE: WHICH WAY? By: Tudor Gherasim SMIRNA JEL: G23, G21, G28 Keywords: Banking, Financial Sector, Fractional Reserves, Reform

»	MONETARY POLICY TRANSMISSION MECHANISM AND DYNAMIC FACTOR MODELS By: Andreea ROŞOIU JEL: E31, C15, C58, E52,, C82 Keywords: Factor Augmented Vector Autoregression, Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism, Romanian Economy, Time Varying Parameters

»	A WAY TO DETERMINE CHAOTIC BEHAVIOUR IN ROMANIAN STOCK MARKET By: Emilian Lucian NEACŞU, Marcela Daniela TODONI JEL: G14, B59, C61, D53, G01 Keywords: Hurst exponent, chaotic behaviour, structural breaks, recurrence analysis

»	TOWARDS A EUROPEAN BANKING UNION: RISKS AND CHALLENGES By: Vasile COCRIŞ, Stanislav PERCIC, Igor ŢURCANU JEL: E58, F63, F33, F36, F55, G21 Keywords: banking union, banking supervision mechanism, Eurozone, European Central Bank

SURVEY ARTICLE

»	BUSINESS MODEL EVALUATION – A CONCEPTUAL APPROACH By: Marius ALEXA JEL: O21, L26 Keywords: entrepreneurship, Business models, evaluation methods

»	CO-PRODUCTION THE PUBLIC SERVICE – A PARTNERSHIP STRATEGY FOR QUALITY INCREASE By: Daniela-Tatiana AGHEORGHIESEI (CORODEANU) JEL: H83, M30 Keywords: co-production, co-production process, citizen, consumer, public services

BOOK REVIEW

»	MUREŞAN, CORNELIA (2012), Changes of family behavior in Romania. A life course approach , Cluj, Presa Universitara Clujeana By: Raluca MARDARE