CURRENT ISSUE - 01 REBS, Volume I, Issue 1

EDITORIAL

»	SCIENTIFIC RIGOUR, CREATIVITY AND DIALOGUE IN ECONOMIC SCIENCES By: Ion POHOATA

RESEARCH PAPER

»	REAL CONVERGENCE AND INTEGRATION By: Aurel IANCU JEL: F02, F15, O57, P37 Keywords: Neoclassical model, marginal rate of return on capital, polarization, convergence, divergence, cohesion, cohesion funds, structural funds, variation coefficient.

»	EVALUATION OF THE PERFORMANCE AND OF THE INTEGRATION OF THE EURO ZONE STOCK MARKET: WHICH ARE THE “RIGHT MOMENTS”? By: Jean-Pierre BERDOT

»	EUROZONE – A SENSIBLE ABSORPTION OF RISK CAPITAL? By: Cicero I. LIMBEREA

»	TOWARDS MEASUREMENT OF POLITICAL PRESSURE ON CENTRAL BANKS IN THE EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES: THE CASE OF THE CENTRAL BANK OF EGYPT By: Ibrahim L. AWAD JEL: C23, E51, E59, H75 Keywords: monetary policy; central bank independence; fiscal dominance; political pressure

»	EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON RISK AVERSION FOR INDIVIDUAL ROMANIAN CAPITAL MARKET INVESTORS By: Alina DRAGHICI, Cristian PAUN, Iulian BRASOVEANU, Radu MUSETESCU JEL: D53, G11 Keywords: risk aversion, individual investor, Romanian capital market

DATA ANALYSIS WITH ORDINAL AND INTERVAL DEPENDENT VARIABLES: EXAMPLES FROM A STUDY OF REAL ESTATE SALESPEOPLE
By: Barry E. LANGFORD, G. Martin IZZO
JEL: C81, M31
Keywords: marketing research, an ordered probit model, statistical analysis, ordinal dependent variables, maximum likelihood estimator, attitudinal survey

CURRENT ISSUES

»	PRO-CAPITALISM VS. ANTI-AMERICANISM IN 21ST CENTURY EUROPE By: Sorin BURNETE

HISTORY OF IDEAS

FROM THE HUMAN CAPITAL DEFINED AS “HOMO OECONOMICUS RATIONALIS” TO THAT OF THE RATIONALLY BOUNDED AND OPORTUNISTIC “HOMO CONTRACTUALIS”. AN INSTITUTIONALIST APPROACH
By: Ion POHOATA
JEL: A11, O11
Keywords: bounded rationality, fulfilling, procedural rationality, opportunism, incomplete contracts, AS IF, institution

BOOK REVIEW

»	„EASILY DIGESTIBLE ECONOMICS”. THE DRAGON AND THE ELEPHANT By: Gabriela GAVRIL-ANTONESEI

»	ROCKEFELLER’S MEMOIRS By: Gabriel CUCUTEANU, Nicoleta DABIJA

CASE STUDY

»	ORGANIZATIONAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT: A ROMANIA FIRM CASE STUDY By: Gerald W. RAMEY, Shaomin HUANG JEL: L21, L25, L26 Keywords: Organizational Assessment, Leadership, Organizational Health

»	THE TARIFF EQUIVALENT OF TARIFF-RATE QUOTAS - A CASE STUDY APPLIED TO THE IMPORT OF AN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT IN ROMANIA By: Petru Catalin BODEA JEL: F13, Q17 Keywords: non-tariff barriers, tariff-rate quotas, tariff equivalent

»	TURKEY: GAINING MARKET SHARE IN THE U.S. READY-TO-WEAR CLOTHING MARKET By: Chin-Wei TUNG, Esin KEYFLI, M.B NEACE, Nabil RAZZOUK, Victoria SEITZ JEL: F23, M30, M31 Keywords: global marketing, market share, Turkey, ready-to-wear clothing market