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

Dragoş NEGRESCU

Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti

The literature devoted to economic development concerns itself in a growing de-gree with the role and importance of institutions. The main function of institu-tions is to shape the expectations of entrepreneurs so as to improve the coordina-tion of their interactions. Because expectations are inherently subjective, reaching the expected goal is essentially dependent on credibility. There are no standard recipes for covering credibility gaps. Devising strategies for the reinforcement of credibility requires the identification of problems, which trigger different re¬sponses, with a broad range of ways and means, of very eclectic composition.