Revista OEconomica

Raluca-Georgiana ROBU, Maria GHEORGHE (NIŢU), Valentin COJANU, Alexia-Maria POPESCU - Between Opportunity and Dependency: The Evolution of Romania’s Trade with Asian Economies [Între oportunitate şi dependenţă: evoluţia comerţului României cu economiile asiatice]

Narciz BĂLĂŞOIU, Octavian-Dragomir JORA, Răzvan Marian PÎRCĂLĂBESCU - Romania’s Positioning and Room for Manoeuvre: The Dilemmas of Peripheral Adaptation in the New Indo-Pacific [Poziţionarea şi marjele de manevră ale României: dilemele adaptării periferice în noul Indo-Pacific]

Mădălina JURUBIțĂ - Redefining EU Trade Policy for an Age of Geoeconomic Rivalry: Strategic Autonomy, Security, and Resilience

Geicun MUSTAFA - Islamophobia as an Informal Trade Barrier: Reputational Risk and the Political Economy of Deglobalization

Hesam JEBELI-BAKHT-ARA - Racialized Capitalism and Economic Discrimination: The Case of Ethnic Labour Segmentation in Contemporary Europe

Articles on Issue Theme

Ovidiu STOICA

Universitatea “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iaşi

In the recent years, in Romania the significant process of specialization for some credit institutions, appeared on the background of the improvement in the economic environment, determined the emergence of a more complex financial landscape that now comprises consumer finance societies, mortgage societies, microfinance societies and some specialized banks. As consequences of these developments, we could highlight the increasing competition in the banking sector; a better allocation of financial resources in the economy; the increasing firms’ competitiveness, through diversifying the sources of financing; the increasing degree of financial intermediation; the populations’ standard of life increase.