CURRENT ISSUE - 06 REBS, Volume III, Issue 2

BOOK REVIEW

»	Jesús Huerta de Soto, artisan of new horizons on the origin of economic cycles and crises By: Ion POHOATA Keywords: Jesús Huerta de Soto

RESEARCH PAPER

»	THE POTENTIAL ECONOMIC RENT IN THE UNITED STATES FROM CO2 ABATEMENT POLICIES By: John M. POLIMENI, Wyatt HARPER

»	OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY IN THE U.S. AIRLINE INDUSTRY: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF POST-DEREGULATION ERA By: Richard A. AJAYI, Seyed MEHDIAN, Vitaly S. GUZHVA JEL: C14, L60 Keywords: U.S. airlines, efficiency, performance

THE GENERAL FRAMEWORK FOR FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS ATTRACTION IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
By: Mihai MUTASCU, Oana MIRU, Roxana HETES
JEL: C21, F21, F30, H20
Keywords: foreign direct investments, active and passive policies, privatization, tax incentives, promotion agencies, guarantees

»	INVESTIGATION OF THE DETERMINANTS OF THE ADJUSTMENT OF LENDING RATES IN MACEDONIA – A SUR APPROACH By: Jane BOGOEV JEL: C22, E43, E52, G21 Keywords: Interest Rate Pas-through, Monetary Policy, Banks’ Financial Characteristics, Banks’ Heterogeneous Behaviour, Aggregation Bias

»	CONTROVERSY OVER SUSTAINABILITY OF INDIA’S FAST ECONOMIC GROWTH: FOUR FACES OF THE DEBATE By: Mazhar SIRAJ JEL: O14, O16, O17, O41, O43 Keywords: economic growth, India, unemployment, demographic dividend, services

»	THE EFFECTS OF INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS ON DEVELOPPING DYNAMIC CAPACITIES IN THE LOCAL FIRMS OF THE EMERGENT MARKETS By: Sonia Ben SLIMANE JEL: F23, L24, L25, O33 Keywords: International joint venture, learning capacities, developing countries, Absorptive capacity

»	INTERDEPENDENCE AND FORECASTING OF S&P500, OIL, EURO / DOLLAR AND 10-YEAR U.S. INTEREST RATE MARKETS: AN ATTEMPT OF MODELLING THROUGH THE VOLATILITY By: Ahmed KSAIER, Isabelle CRISTIANI-D’ORNANO JEL: C22, C53, G17 Keywords: Volatility, Long Memory, FIGARCH, Forecasting.

»	THE EFFECTS OF EXCHANGE RATE VOLATILITY ON SWAZILAND’S EXPORTS By: G.R. MOTLALENG, M.D MTEMBU JEL: E37, F47 Keywords: exchange rate volatility, Swaziland’s exports, Vector Error Correction Model

»	EMPIRICAL STUDY ON INFLUENCE OF EXTRAVERSION ON CONSUMER PASSION AND BRAND EVANGELISM WITH WORD-OF-MOUTH COMMUNICATION By: Pradeep KAUTISH JEL: M310 Keywords: ord-of-Mouth, Influence, Extraversion, Consumer Passion, Brand Evangelism

»	HOW DO THE DEMOGRAPHIC COMPONENTS INFLUENCE JOB SATISFACTION IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY? By: Derya KARA JEL: J28, L83 Keywords: job satisfaction, demographic components of employee’s, accommodation establishments

»	ENTREPRENEUR PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAITS AND PERFORMANCE: IMPLICATIONS FOR NIGERIAN NON-OIL SMES EXPORTING COMPANIES By: Anthonia Adenike ADENIJI, Omotayo Joseph OYENIYI JEL: L25, L26 Keywords: Psychological traits; need achievement; locus of control; self-efficacy; performance

ESSAY

»	THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF BUKOVINA (I) THE FIRST PERIOD OF AUSTRIAN RULE: 1774 - 1849 By: Gabriel DONICI, Liviu-George MAHA, Sorin-Stefan MAHA JEL: F15, F22, N13, N33, N43, O14, O52 Keywords: economic growth, values, mentalities, reforms, immigration, integration, economic development

»	MEANINGS OF THE NOTION OF CULTURE IN INTERCULTURAL RESEARCH By: Angelica-Nicoleta ONEA JEL: Z19 Keywords: culture, intercultural research, cultural determinism, acculturation

»	LABOUR MARKET AND CORRUPTION ISSUES IN CHIANG RAI, THAILAND By: John WALSH JEL: D73, J24 Keywords: Labour market, Corruption, Thailand

»	IS MOBILE LEARNING HEADING A WRONG WAY? By: Mugurel PATRICHI JEL: D83, Q55 Keywords: mobile learning, M-Learning, E-Learning, M-Learning detractors