Mare Codruta

Mare Codruta
Babeș-Bolyai University | UBB · Department of Statistics, Forecast and Mathematics

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This study investigates the spatial clustering and spillover effects of COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Romania, focusing on the municipality-level distribution of vaccine acceptance and hesitancy while considering the factors that influence it. The research uses the Spatial Durbin Error Model (SDEM) and identifies spatial clusterization, as well as sig...
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We investigate gender disparities and network linkages among editors of Finance journals at the end of 2022. The role of journal editors in shaping academic disciplines is crucial, yet gender imbalances and the geographic concentration of editors remain poorly understood. Ethical considerations arise when examining the representation of women on ed...
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Crowdfunding platforms, which have gained popularity as a means of financing entrepreneurial initiatives, face a substantial risk from financial fraud, which can undermine their credibility. Crowdfunding, whether with or without financial returns, presents novel prospects while also exposing platforms to potential fraudulent activities. This articl...
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The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of an internal auditor’s activities in Romania, through their specific activities, on ESG reporting and sustainable development goals (SDGs). Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) are three criteria by which an organization’s operations are characterized as sustainable, responsible, or ethi...
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Crowdfunding has emerged as a critical financial solution that democratizes capital access, driving innovation and economic development. The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into crowdfunding management offers numerous strategic benefits, such as predicting success rates or detecting fraud. Previous research efforts have showcased the po...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems process massive quantities of data. A lot of this data is related to identifiable individuals and is what we call personal data under the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). To process such data legally, organisations that develop or deploy AI systems in Europe must understand their re...
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Research background: This study identifies the key factors influencing environmental health across a global panel of countries, focusing on protection from environmental hazards, as informed by the existing literature, while also shedding light on novel aspects of these causal relationships. Purpose of the article: This study aims to reveal, throug...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems process massive quantities of data. A lot of this data is related to identifiable individuals and is what we call personal data under the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). To process such data legally, organisations that develop or deploy AI systems in Europe must understand their re...
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Models of tax compliance analysed various factors affecting tax compliant behaviour, from human internal motivations to public perception, risk aversion of penalty and trust in State. For tackling the assessment of taxpayer perception on the fiscal system in a challenging survey based on multiple items, a hybrid statistical model is introduced. In...
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Developing a strategy to increase happiness is a major focus of a positive economy. The purpose of the present study is to find an answer to the following question: can insurers contribute to happiness? Starting from the ANOVA approach and regression analysis on the Romanian sample, we show that financial factors, self-rated stress level, age, and...
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This chapter discusses the methodology used in the study and how the data were gathered. A questionnaire was distributed to 1856 Romanians comprising a wide range of demographic variables, including gender, age, education level, professional status, and geographic region of the country.KeywordsSurveyRomaniaDemographic variablesTax complianceCorrupt...
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This chapter discloses and discusses the results of the study. The first objective of the study consisted of finding the main patterns that characterize the Romanian community, related to the level of tax compliance, attitude of citizens toward accepting cheating on taxes, the perception of corruption level in the Romanian public institutions, the...
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We investigate several insurance structural indexes, emphasising the internal structure of the insurance market in relation to other financial sectors. The considered factors evaluate economic development, performance of institutional environment, and the cultural characteristics (Hofstede’s measures). Data are from official international sources,...
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This chapter discusses the methodology used in the study and how the data were gathered. A questionnaire was distributed to 1,856 Romanians comprising a wide range of demographic variables, including gender, age, education level, professional status and geographic region of the country. JEL classification: H26, D73, G18
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This chapter discloses and discusses the results of the study. The first objective of the study consisted of finding the main patterns that characterize the Romanian community, related to the level of tax compliance, attitude of citizens towards accepting cheating on taxes, the perception of corruption level in the Romanian public institutions, the...
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The expansion of the European Union has intensified road traffic from, at least, two perspectives: it increased free mobility of people and goods, along with structural funds available for infrastructure improvement. Consequently, connections between regions/countries have improved, and a spatial diffusion effect is seen in the car transportation b...
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Considering the large size of the agricultural sector in Romania, increasing the crop insurance adoption rate and identifying the factors that drive adoption can present a real interest in the Romanian market. The main objective of this research was to identify the performance of machine learning (ML) models in predicting Romanian farmers’ purchase...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many changes into people’s lives. Fear, job insecurity, changes in their financial stability, concerns about their future lives have changed the entire lives of people and have affected the cognitive well-being of individuals. The purpose of the present analysis is to measure how the COVID-19 pandemic, along with f...
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The aim of this study was to determine the financial crime community pulse in Romania. For this purpose a survey questionnaire was distributed to 1,856 respondents between May 27th - June 6th 2022. The first objective of our study consists in finding the main patterns that characterize the Romanian community, related to the financial crime percept...
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The financing structure of the healthcare system and, particularly, the voluntary health insurance (VHI) constituent, has been a vital pillar in improving the overall quality of life. Consequently, this study aims to shed light on the effect of VHI on the population’s health and longevity in a sample of 26 European OECD countries. The methodology e...
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Spatial analyses related to Covid-19 have been so far conducted at county, regional or national level, without a thorough assessment at the continuous local level of administrative-territorial units like cities, towns, or communes. To address this gap, we employ daily data on the infection rate provided for Romanian administrative units from March...
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The phenomenon of tax evasion and phenomenon of tax avoidance are two facets of similar behavior. Both affect societies across globe. It is a well-known fact that tax revenues account for the majority of public revenues and therefore the phenomenon is of great interest for public authorities as it is for other stakeholders. Designing effective tax...
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In this paper we analyzed the link between companies’ performance, in terms of cash and income, and the labor productivity or management rates, in case of the companies from the energy sector listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange. We focused on the energy sector because of the impact that its expansion has on the evolution of economies around the...
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Tax avoidance has complex implications in tax litigation as well as in the economic and social field. From a legal perspective, any act or fact that aims to avoid tax or to evade the payment of fiscal obligations is punished and the material damage produced to the state budget entails the legal liability of taxpayer. State exercises its coercive fo...
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Tax avoidance is one of the most frequent reasons for which companies tend to resort to creative accounting techniques. The purpose of the study is to identify which of the eight-variables from the Beneish influences the most or least the outcome of the final score, as a percent, by developing a statistical model. The sample was selected from the B...
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Specialty literature and solutions in the market have been focusing in the last decade on collecting and aggregating significant amounts of data about transactions (and user behavior) and on refining the algorithms used to identify fraud. At the same time, legislation in the European Union has been adopted in the same direction (e.g., PSD2) in orde...
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Background and Aim: Although cirrhosis is a classical risk factor for the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), its absence does not exclude this risk. We aimed to assess the clinical characteristics and outcomes of cirrhotic HCC (C-HCC) and non-cirrhotic HCC (NC-HCC) patients. Methods: Patients consecutively included in a prospective HCC...
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The online shopping chain consists of a transaction, starting from the intention to buy and up to the purchase decision, regardless of the adopted strategy. For the buyer, the transaction cost is not only made up by the price of the commodity, but also by the cost of all other resources involved in the entire process. If simple information search (...
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In most Eastern European countries, the life insurance market is poorly developed with respect to the income level of their citizens. Most of the academic literature investigating the determinants of this market focuses on cross-country- or individual-level studies. Our research assesses the specificities of the life insurance market at a subnation...
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This work adds to the debate on the determinants of the demand for life insurance providing new insights for the unexplored Romanian market, and the new perspective of spatial econometric analysis. Results show that there are spatial interactions between the Romanian counties regarding the life insurance density, positively and significantly condit...
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The motivation behind this study resides in the heterogeneous development of life insurance across 31 European (developed and former communist) nations over the period 2002–2012. We use the dynamic panel methodology for explaining the main institutional drivers of life insurance consumption. The results show that the most significant institutional...
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The goal of the present study is to investigate and to base a new qualitative dimension of the organization’s performance, less addressed in the literature, namely the geocentric behavior dimension. Using a cross-sectional sample covering 215 countries over the period 2012–2015, our research provides empirical evidence on significant impact of the...
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Aim: Endorectal ultrasonography (ERUS) and high-resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging (HR-MRI) are two frequently used techniques for the preoperative staging of rectal cancer to offer proper neoadjuvant or surgical treatment. Because tumor restaging after neoadjuvant therapy using ERUS and HR-MRI remains challenging the aim of this study is to de...
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We investigate the influence of institutional factors upon life insurance demand for 32 European countries, considering the socio-demographic and economic determinants as control variables. Using a panel data approach, we find that life insurance demand is influenced differently by institutional indicators from the Worldwide Governance Indicators d...
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This study investigates correlations between board characteristics and firm performances. For this purpose, six board characteristics were chosen: (1) equilibrium between non-executive and executive members of the board of directors; (2) independence of board members; (3) selection of board members by the assistant role of the Nomination Committee;...
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The 2008 global financial crisis has upset the world economy, with major effects on the financial sector, industry, trade and agriculture. However, national economies have been affected in a significantly unequal manner. The objective of this study is to estimate the relationship between the importance of agriculture in a national economy and the e...
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The present study evaluates the relationship between governance and the development of the life insurance market in 31 European countries. For this, we considered the six Worldwide Governance Indicators. An overall governance index, which we called WGI, was computed based on them, using the principal component analysis. Afterwards, we employed the...
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The results of extensive studies that analyzed the existence and meaning of correlations between the economic growth and the financial market development lead us to a more thorough study of these correlations. Therefore, we performed a broad study of the developing countries from around the world (the developing part of each region constructed by t...
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Curcumin [1,7-bis(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-1,6- heptadiene - 3,5-dione] is a phenolic substance derived from the root of the Curcuma longa L plant. It is used as antiproliferative, anti-invasive and antiangiogenic agent with anti-inflammatory functions, cancer chemopreventive activity and antioxidant properties. The aim of the study was to assess...
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Starting from the idea that interactions exist in the European Union, we have implemented Spatial Econometrics methods to assess the occurrence of absolute, conditional or club β-convergence on the EU life insurance market. The life insurance density was used as a proxy for the development of the life insurance market in our analysis for 27EU count...
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Objective : the pourpose of the study was to determine if there are any differences between placenta derived plasmatic levels of messenger RNA in normal and future preeclamptic pregnancies and if these placental transcripts can predict preeclampsia long before clinical onset Study design : we compared plasmatic expression of two placental transcrip...
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Background & Aims: To assess the role of diffusion weighted imaging sequence (DWI), routinely used in hepatic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the differentiation of focal liver lesions (FLLs) as benign or malignant. Method: 99 FLLs assessed by liver MRI in 80 patients were included in the present study. All lesions were retrospectively analyze...
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Background and aims: The incidence of rectal cancer in the European Union is about 35% of the total colorectal cancer incidence. Staging rectal cancer is important for planning treatment. It is essential for the management of rectal cancer to have adequate preoperative imaging, because accurate staging can influence the therapeutic strategy, type...
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This study investigated on a rat model the hair regrowth effects of Low-Level Laser Therapy as monotherapy or concomitant therapy with topical application of two chemical treatments that are used in human patients with hair loss: Minoxidil 2% - Hairgrow (Dar Al Dawa Pharma/Amman, Jordan) and Neoptide (Ducray/ Boulogne, France). Results of hair regr...
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In the current context of sustainable development performance means not only to create profit at any cost but to create profits without affecting the interests of other participants in the business including without affecting the environment. Meanwhile corporate governance should ensure the achievement of these objectives by adopting the best corpo...
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The present study assesses through quantitative methods the problems specific to consumer protection. We focused on the factors that influence the number of complaints at national level and the perception of consumers that they are protected by public authorities. Data used for the 27 countries of the European Union were collected by official insti...
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Using a historiography approach on public accounting, this research add value to this knowledge providing a customization of the environmental influential factors for an emergent context, the Romanian one, in specific historical phases between 1831 and 2011. The critical-interpretative picture of an extended period of 180 years is complemented by a...
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Crop insurance is a very well implemented mechanism in the economic and agricultural sectors of the developed countries. In the developing countries there are yet in practice traditional local systems of helping the other in the case of natural disasters. The transition to an organized system, based on buying insurance policies, is a very slow proc...
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European Social Fund has to be accurately implemented by Members’ States authorities through projects developed by public and private national entities, according also to the principle of “sound financial management”, described as the expression of the appropriate mix of economy of assigned resources, efficient allocation of resources toward indica...
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European Commission trusted for implementation the European Social Fund (ESF) to Member States through a commonly agreed decentralized management system, including compliance to the “sound financial management” principle within the Members’ State designated Authorities obligations. While implementing ESF, Romania should comply too with this princip...
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The present paper investigates the influence of leadership upon the lives of the women in such positions in the North-Western Region of Romania. Using a sample of 207 female leaders we test a series of hypotheses meant to assess the way their family and social life has changed after getting the executive position. Results show that regardless of th...
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Services of general economic interest (SGEI) are usually offered on markets characterized by monopoly, oligopoly, governmental or local authorities control or other forms of market imperfection. Consequently, issues related to consumer protection also present some particularities. In the energetic sector, the product offered (electricity) is absolu...
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The labour market in any field becomes more and more demanding and specialized, professional. For a more efficient absorption of graduates, the professional environment requires both advanced theoretical knowledge and practical abilities. During the study period, based on rational mechanisms, students form a perception related to the probability of...
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The risk of bankruptcy was and is the subject of many research studies aiming to identify the time of bankruptcy, competing factors to achieve this state, the main financial criteria which best expresses this orientation, the bankruptcy, etc. Although there are models that have proved their viability over time, we note that the developed models are...
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This paper offers a first quantitative glance at the possible effects of preparing for Euro adoption, as well as at the ex-post effects of actual adoption. Although the complexity of the models considered gradually increases, nevertheless all the simulations provide the same general picture in which (short and sometimes medium term) restrictiveness...
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The teaching performance is influenced firstly by the quality of the educational system. The universities are trying to raise the expectations regarding the methods used for evaluating the teaching quality. In order for the results to be as much as credible the evaluation must defer to the existing theory and to follow the standardized procedures,...
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The article emphasizes aspects regarding the evaluation of the higher educationï¿1/2s quality. In certain countries, the questionnaires regarding quality of the activity of HEIs (Higher Education Institutions) are administrated by specialized institutions led by the Ministry of Education or the university associations. The evaluation principles der...

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