Paper Title (Capital Letters, Times New Roman, 11 Pt

PAPER TITLE (CAPITAL LETTERS, TIMES NEW ROMAN, 11 PT., BOLD, CENTER)

NAME Surname (author 1)

title/position (professor, associate professor, assistant professor, teaching assistant, junior teaching assistant / Ph.D. or Ph.D. student), Faculty of ...... /Department….., "...... " University, City, Country, e-mail

NAME Surname (author 2)

NAME Surname (author 3)

(Times New Roman, 10 pt., bold + italic, center)

Abstract: (Times New Roman, 10 pt., italic, 1.27 cm indent, justify) The abstract will not exceed 100 words. It will mention the aim of the paper, research goals and expected results.

Key words: (Times New Roman, 10 pt., 1.27 cm indent, justify) minimum 3 and maximum 5

JEL classification: (Times New Roman, 10 pt., 1.27 cm indent, justify) available at the following address http://www.aeaweb.org/jel/jel_class_system.php

1. Introduction

Papers will be written in English and will be of maximum 10 pages long.

Page format: A4. Margins: top - 2 cm; bottom - 2 cm; left - 2.5 cm; right - 2 cm; Header and Footer: 1.27 cm; Times New Roman, 11 pt.; justify; single space.

Participants can send either an individual paper or two papers in collaboration. We will not accept papers with more than 3 co-authors.

2. Sections

Sections should be numbered consecutively, using Arabic numerals (e.g. 2, 3 etc.) and subsections may be double-numbered (e.g. 2.1., 2.2. etc.).

Equations should be aligned to left margin and numbered consecutively, as in Equation (1).

Tables and figures should be numbered consecutively (e.g. Table 1, Table 2; Figure 1, Figure 2).

Text of the equations, tables and figures: Times New Roman, 10 pt., single space.

Please do not use colours in tables and figures. Authors are advised to prepare their figures in black and white, in high resolution (300 dpi).

We would prefer the style shown in Table 1 or Figure 1.

Table 1: Table title (Times New Roman, 10 pt., bold, center)

Column 1 title / Column 2 title / Column 3 title / Column n title
Row 1 title / Times New Roman,
10 pt. / Times New Roman,
10 pt. / Times New Roman,
10 pt.
Row 2 title / Times New Roman,
10 pt. / Times New Roman,
10 pt. / Times New Roman,
10 pt.
Row n title / Times New Roman,
10 pt. / Times New Roman,
10 pt. / Times New Roman,
10 pt.

Source: (Times New Roman, 10 pt.)

Figure 1:Figure title (Times New Roman, 10 pt., bold, center)

Source: (Times New Roman, 10 pt.)

3. Conclusions

Do not add any text to the header and footer, not even page numbers.

Papers can only be submitted on-line in .DOC or .DOCX format on the Conference website: http://iecs.ulbsibiu.ro

All submissions are subject to a double blind review process. Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and contribution. After the official acceptance of your full paper is issued, please complete your registration and hotel reservation as soon as possible.

Participants can send either an individual paper or two papers in collaboration. The organizing committee will not accept papers with more than 3 co-authors.

All accepted papers will be published in the CD Conference Proceedings with ISSN;

Following a evaluation process, part of the presented papers will be published in:

- Procedia Economic and Finance (Elsevier, ScienceDirect) http://www.journals.elsevier.com/procedia-economics-and-finance - and will be submitted for evaluation and coverage in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index by Thomson Reuters – ISI Proceedings;

- Revista Economica (RePEc, EBSCO, DOAJ, Ulrich's Global Serials Directory) (http://economice.ulbsibiu.ro/revista.economica)

- Studies in Business and Economics (RePEc, EBSCO, DOAJ, Index Copernicus, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, Cabell's Directory) (http://eccsf.ulbsibiu.ro/index.html)

4. References

References to the literature in the main text should use the form: Porter (1998); Stiglitz (1997a); (Stiglitz, 1992; Stiglitz, 1996); (Stiglitz, 1997, p. 190); (IMF, 2009). Footnotes should be avoided.

References should be set out in alphabetical order of the author's name in a list at the end of the paper, in a standard form, as in the following examples:

· Gwin, C.R. (2001) A Guide for Industry Study and the Analysis of Firms and Competitive Strategy. Available at http://faculty.babson.edu/gwin/indstudy/index.htm.

· Krugman, P.; Elizondo, R.L. (1996) Trade Policy and the Third World Metropolis, Journal of Development Economics, 49 (1), p. 137-150.

· Porter, M.E. (1998) The Competitive Advantage of Nations. New York: Free Press.

· Vittas, H. (2004) Adopting the Euro in the New Member States: Any Lessons from Greece’s Experience?, IMF Working Paper.

· IMF (2009) Global Financial Stability Report, IMF World Economic and Financial Surveys.