| The Board | ||||
|
|
|
||
| Lucian Croitoru | Valentin Lazea | Giovanni Ravasio | ||
| The quality of the economic policy is critical for the progress of the society. We are trying to contribute to the improvement of that quality. | Romanias joining the European Union involves a special intellectual, financial and managerial effort. The Center is trying to be an active unifying factor in this immense effort. | In my view, the most important contribution of the Center should be the dissemination in the Romanian society of sound and non-partisan economic analysis and high quality economic policy advice. | ||
|
|
|
||
| Gheorghe Oprescu | Constantin Munteanu | Aurelian Dochia | ||
| The setting up of the Center is the answer to an acute need of the Romanian society, namely that of having a coherent policy guiding the economic changes in the country, which is too often abandoned to the caprice of non-strategic choices. | In my opinion, the most important goal of the Center is to bring together, within the framework of research projects with pragmatic orientation, as much economic brain power capital as possible. | The Romanian Center for Economic Policies is intended at providing government and public institutions independent expert opinion and advice on economic policy matters. It has also the ambition of being ferment for public debate on economic policies and catalyst for the dialogue between different stakeholders in the Romania's modernization process. | ||
| Lucian Croitoru, president |
| Mr. Croitoru, Phd. in
Economics, is at present Romania's representative at IMF, Washington. Mr. Croitoru is Scientific Director of the Institute of Industrial Economics, Bucharest, and former first counselor to the Minister of Finance and former counselor of the Governor of the National Bank of Romania Main Titles: "Hard Budget Constraints and Enterprise Restructing in Romania", 2001 "Firms and Banks in Financial Distress. Prospects for Enterprise Restructuring", Center for Political Studies and Comparative Analysis, April, 1997 "Enterprise Restructuring in Romania", paper presented at the ACE-PHARE Workshop on Firms and Banks Restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe, Edinburgh, 2-3 May 1997 "An Assessment of Romanian Fiscal Policy Between 1990 and 1995", 1996 "Macrostabilization and Transition", 1993 |
| Top |
| Valentin Lazea, acting president |
|
Mr. Valentin Lazea is the Chief Economist of the National Bank of Romania and
former Secretary of State of the Ministry of Finance (December 1996 - December 1998 and August 2000 - December 2000).
Main titles: "Rural Development and Agriculture Reform in Romania", 2004. "Political Economy of the Transition", 2002. "Avoiding a financial crisis in Romania. Authorities' response", March 1999, Bucharest. "Conditionalities for Romania's accession into the European Union", November 1999, Bucharest. |
| Top |
| Mr. Oprescu is professor of economics in Polytechnic University of Bucharest and has substantial experience as researcher and practitioner in fields related to the political economy of the economic reform. His specialization is in applied microeconomics, with an emphasis on labor markets, antitrust and institutional development. He is a former vice-president of the Competition Council and worked as a consultant for the World Bank, O.E.C.D., and European Commission.
Main titles: "Competition Policy", 2004 The Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in the Transition Process: the case of Romania, Euro-in Library, Italy, 1993 (co-author). Privatization in Romania-1992, in Privatization in Central & Eastern Europe 1992, Eastern European Privatization Network and Economic Development Institute of the World Bank, Ljubljana, 1993. Aggregate Labor Market Behavior in the Restructuring of the Romanian Economy, in Unemployment, Restructuring, and the Labor Market in Eastern Europe and Russia, EDI Development Studies, World Bank, Washington 1995. Competition Policy in Transition Economies: the case of Romania, in Competition Policy Newsletter, no. 3, October 1999, Brussels. Microeconomie, macroeconomie (Microeconomics, macroeconomics), Editura Economica, Bucuresti, 2000 (reprinted in 2002). The Modernization of EC Competition Law: The Case of an Associated Country, in European Competition Law Annual 2000: The Modernisation of EC Antitrust Policy, The Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute, Hart Publishing, 2001. The Impact on Romania of Public Utilities Market Liberalization, European Institute of Romania, October 2002. |
| Top |
| Constantin Munteanu |
| Mr. Munteanu is a professor at the
Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest. He is former dean of the
Romanian-American University, Bucharest, and former Secretary of State at
the Department of Economic Reform of the Romanian Government. Mr. Munteanu is also co-founder and Board member of the Romanian Institute for Free Enterprise, Bucharest, co-founder of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES), Freiberg, Germany, member of the Editorial Board of the quarterly journal "OECONOMICA", Bucharest and co-founder of the Romanian Society of Economics, Bucharest. Main titles: "Industrial Restructuring and Enterprise Reform", in Assessment of Economic Restructuring in Romania, Policy-Research Project, International Center for Economic Growth, San Francisco, April 1994 "The Economic Reform Policy in Romania: A Case of Pathological Gradualism", paper persented at the 3rd Conference of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES), Budapest, August 8-10, 1994 "Political Stability and Structural Reform in Romania", EuroForum Conference on Investment Opportunities in Romania, Bucharest, June 19-20, 1995 "Employees' Shareownership in Central and Eastern Privatization. The Case of Romania" in Milica Uvalic and Daniel Vangham (eds.) Privatization Surprises in Transition Economies. Employee-Ownership in Central and Eastern Europe, Chelteham/England, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1997 "The Theology of Economics - A New Field in Economic Epistemology?", paper presented at the TEMPER International Conference - "New Directions in Economics", Constanta/Romania, July 14-17, 1997 "Enterprise Sector Reform in Romania: Loss Reduction via Liquidation and Privatization", paper presented at TEMPER nternational Conference -"Reform in Romania: Present State and Prospects", Constantza/Romania, July 15-18, 1998 |
| Top |