Results of the project

Planned results

• Interim report no. 1

• 2 papers under review in ISI journals (out of which 1 accepted paper, out of which 1 published paper)

• 1 paper under review in BDI journals (out of which 1 published paper)

• 2 participations in international conferences

• 1 website of the project

Achieved results (budget: 93,569 RON)

• Interim report no. 1

• 5 papers under review in ISI journals (out of which 2 accepted papers)

  • Albulescu, C.T. (2020), COVID-19 and the United States financial markets’ volatility, Finance Research Letters. (accepted paper, online first)

  • Albulescu, C.T., Miclea, S. (2020), How does the national human capital index influence the total factor productivity of the Romanian R&D firms?, Human Systems Management. (accepted paper, online first)

  • Albulescu, C.T., Miclea, S. (2020), Firm-level TFP convergence: An application to the German electricity and gas industry, Submitted to Applied Economics Letters. (under review).

  • Albulescu, C.T., Ajmi, A.N. (2020), Oil price and US dollar exchange rate: Change detection of bi-directional causal impact, Submitted to Energy Economics. (under review).

  • Albulescu, C.T., Mutascu, M.I. (2020), Fuel price co-movements among France, Germany and Italy: A time-frequency investigation, Submitted to Energy. (under review).

• 1 paper under review in BDI journals

  • Albulescu, C.T., Mina, M., Oros, C. (2020), Oil-US Stock Market Nexus: Some insights about the New Coronavirus Crisis , Submitted to Economics Bulletin. (under review).

• 6 participations in international conferences

  • 22th INFER Annual Conference, University Pris 13, Paris, France.

  • GCBSS 2020: 11th Global Conference on Business and Social Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand.

  • 36th IBIMA Conference, Granada, Spain.

  • IMC 2020: The 14th International Management Conference “Managing Sustainable Organizations”, Bucharest, Romania.

  • GEBA 2020: 12th International Conference “Globalisation and Higher Education in Economics and Business Administration”, “A.I. Cuza” University, Iasi, Romania.

  • 33rd EBES Conference, Madrid, Spain.

• 1 website of the project

  • https://sites.google.com/view/epueer-mfi-te2019/home

• Working papers

  • Do COVID-19 and crude oil prices drive the US economic policy uncertainty?

  • Coronavirus and oil price crash

  • The nonlinear relationship between firm size and growth in the automotive industry (with Tamasila, M., Taucean, I.M.)

  • Do the gasoline and diesel prices co-move? Evidence from the time-frequency domain (with. M.I. Mutascu)

  • The asymmetric effect of environmental policies on CO2 emissions in OECD countries (with Boatca, E. and Diconescu, A.)

  • EU Climate Policies: Description, Implications and Perspectives (with Luminos, C.)

  • Productivity and corporate governance in European oil and gas companies (with Sîrbu, R. and Drăghici, A.)

  • COVID-19 uncertainty and the decline in CO2 emissions in the EU countries (with Mihali, L.)

RST 2020

Planned results

• Interim report no. 2

• 3 papers under review in ISI journals (out of which 2 accepted papers, out of which 2 published papers)

• 1 paper under review in BDI journals (out of which 1 accepted paper)

• 2 papers published in ISI proceedings (out of which 1 indexed paper)

• 5 participations in international conferences

• 1 research stage

Achieved results (budget 223,968 RON)

• Interim report no. 2

• 13 papers under review in ISI journals (out of which 8 accepted papers, out of which 8 published papers)

  • PUBLISHED

1. Albulescu, C.T., Tiwari, A.K., Kyophilavong, P. (2021). Nonlinearities and chaos: A new analysis of CEE stock markets, Mathemathics, 9(7), 707. (ISI, Q1)

2. Albulescu, C.T., Mutascu, M. (2021). Fuel price co-movements among France, Germany and Italy: A time-frequency investigation, Energy, 225, 120236. (ISI, Q1)

3. Stancu, S., Grecu, E., Aceleanu, M.I., Trasca, D.L., Albulescu, C.T. (2021). Does firm size matters for firm growth? Evidence from the Romanian health sector, Romanian Journal for Economic Forecasting, 24(1), 17-31. (ISI, Q4)

4. Albulescu, C.T., Tamasila, M., Taucean, I.M. (2021). The nonlinear relationship between firm size and growth in the automotive industry, Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 21(3), 445-463. (ISI, ESCI)

5. Albulescu, C.T., Miclea, S. (2021). How does the national human capital index influence the total factor productivity of the Romanian R&D firms?, Human Systems Management, 40(4), 513-518. (ISI, ESCI)

6. Albulescu, C.T. (2021). COVID-19 and the United States financial markets’ volatility, Finance Research Letters, 38, 101699. (ISI, Q1)

7. Albulescu, C.T., Ajmi, A.N. (2021). Causal change detection between oil price and US dollar exchange rate, Energy Economics, 100, 105385. (ISI, Q1)

8. Albulescu, C.T., Miclea, S., Grecu, E. (2021). Firm-level total factor productivity convergence in German electricity and gas industry, Applied Economics Letters. (ISI, Q4)

• • UNDER REVIEW

1. Albulescu, C.T., Turcu, C. (2021), Total factor productivity, financial performances and corporate governance: An analysis of the R&D sector in Romania, with Turcu, C., Submitted to Applied Economics.

2. Albulescu, C.T., Grecu, E., Zaremba, A., Aharon, D.Y. (2021), Government Interventions and Sovereign Bond Market Volatility during COVID-19: A Quantile Analysis, Submitted to International Journal of Finance and Economics.

3. Albulescu, C.T., Boatca-Barbas, M.E., Diconescu, A. (2021), The asymmetric effect of environmental policies on CO2 emissions in OECD countries, Submitted to Environmental Science and Pollution Research.

4. Albulescu, C.T. (2021), International oil prices and bank financial stability: Evidence from listed Russian public banks. Submitted to Energies.

5. Albulescu, C.T. (2021), Health care expenditures in the EU countries: new insights about the convergence process, Submitted to International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

• 1 paper published in BDI journals

  • PUBLISHED

1. Albulescu, C.T., Mina, M., Oros, C. (2021). Oil-US Stock Market Nexus: Some insights about the New Coronavirus Crisis, Economics Bulletin, 41(2), 588-593. (ISI, ESCI)

• • ACCEPTED

• 2 papers accepted in ISI proceedings (out of which 0 indexed paper)

  • PUBLISHED / INDEXED

  • ACCEPTED

1. Ianasi, M., Ivascu, L., Albulescu, C., Tamasila, M. (2021). The Sustainable Way to a Green and Clean Energy for Romania. 6th Symposium in Management: Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Challenging Global Times. Forthcoming in “Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering” - Series, ISSN 2198-0772.

2. Ianasi, M. Vuc, G., Tamasila, M., Albulescu, C., Mihali, L. (2021). Changes in Energy Supply Chain for Romania. 6th Symposium in Management: Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Challenging Global Times. Forthcoming in “Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering” - Series, ISSN 2198-0772.

• 6 participations in international conferences

1. SIM 2021: 16th International Symposium in Management, Politehnica University of Timisoara and West University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania.

2. 23rd INFER Annual Conference, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.

3. 7th Annual Scientific Conference of Romanian Academic Economists from Abroad (ERMAS 2021), “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu , Sibiu, Romania.

4. International Conference TIMTED 2021 "Current Economic Trends in Emerging and Developing Countries", West University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania.

5. EURO working group for commodities and financial modelling 63rd meeting & XVIII International conference on finance and banking FI BA 2021, Bucharest, Romania.

6. 35th EBES Conference, Rome, Italy.

• 1 research stage

  • Claudiu Albulescu - University of North Macedonia

RST 2021