Full Description
This book presents economic research on global paradigm shifts after the COVID-19 crisis. It explores some expected deep and long-lasting changes that are building up a "new normal". Featuring select contributions presented at the 2021 International Conference of Economic Scientific Research - Theoretical, Empirical and Practical Approaches (ESPERA), this book explores topics such as digitalization and digital sovereignty, workforce management, virtual training, digital currency, de-carbonization in production processes, supply chains, cybersecurity, automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, Internet of Things and blockchain technologies.
Contents
1. Synthetic composite indicators for monitoring changes in countries' development rankings - a bibliometric analysis.- 2. Motivation "after work": the right to retire versus the right "not to retire".- 3. Assessment Models of the Digital Economy and Knowledge-based Societies in Europe.- 4. Economic Growth Through Financial Development: Empirical Evidences From New Member States And Western Balkan Countries.- 5. Capital markets union and international risk-sharing.- 6. FESBAL-UPM Food Bank Chair and the Service-Learning Projects from the "Working With People" perspective.- 7. Economic Aspects of the Innovative Alternatives Use in Agriculture.- 8. Scenarios for the allocation of direct payments under the CAP National Strategic Plan 2023-2027: coupled support.- 9. Romanian agri-food products competitiveness - an analysis using trade balances and unit values. Did the COVID-19 crisis influenced it?- 10. The Economic and Social Impact of Increasing Electricity Prices. Estimates, Analysis and Predictions.- 11. Maintaining green goals in disruptive times. Evidences from the European energy sector.- 12. Transition to a low carbon economy and the impact on the urban regeneration process.- 13. Analysis of the Changes Induced by the COVID-19 Crisis in the Structure of Daily Electricity Consumption.- 14. The importance of R&D in reducing CO2 emissions from passenger transport.- 15. The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the tourism sector. New challenges .- 16. Effects of COVID-19 pandemic crisis on vulnerable groups in Romania. Social policy responses.- 17. The special employment centers: The Spanish response to the insertion of people with functional diversity and its impact on the social economy.- 18. Geospatial characteristics of unemployment for the period 2010 - 2020 in the South-West Oltenia Development Region, Romania.- 19. Urban village - a trend accentuated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Analysis of the Bucharest - Ilfov region.- 20. Nature-based solutions for green infrastructure development.- 21. Hotel management in the XXI century: Opportunities, threats and implications.- 22. Digital divide and employment. From job disruption to reskilling workers for the future world of work.- 23. Global ethics - a potentially integrative paradigm of sustainable development for the new economy.- 24. How resilient is the labor market after a crisis? A comparative analysis of the effects generated by the financial crisis vs. the Covid-19 crisis.- 25. Investigating the economic and social impact induced by electricity prices.- 26. The Short Cycles of Labour Market Operation and Industrial Relations in Interwar Romania.- 27. Urbanization and the crisis of natural resources, in the context of sustainable development.
