Research

1/ Research interest

• International economics

• Public economics

• Economic growth

• Energy economics

• Applied economics

2/ Grants

• 2024-2027: Member of Research Team - PN-IV-P1-PCE-2023-0679, within PNCDI IV, Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization, CNCS - UEFISCDI, Finance and climate change: Investigating the Interconnection Between Energy Prices, Green Finance, Emissions and Monetary Policy, project number: Polytechnic University of Timisoara

• 2023: Solo Applicant - Grant PN-IV-P2-2.3-PRECISI-2023-68068, Prize for research results 2023, for article ”Okun's law in the US: New insights in time and frequency”, published in ”Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance”, beneficiary: West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economic and Business Administration
  2021: Solo Applicant - ”DAAD Research Fellowship”, DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Application no. 57552334, under aegis of Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists - 2021, Germany

• 2021: Solo Applicant - Grant PN-III-P1-1.1-PRECISI-2021-53193, Prize for research results 2021, for article ”Artificial intelligence and unemployment: New insights”, published in ”Economic Analysis and Policy”, beneficiary: West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economic and Business Administration

• 2021: Solo Applicant - Grant PN-III-P1-1.1-PRECISI-2021-65293, Prize for research results 2021, for article ”Energy consumption and economic growth in Italy: A wavelet analysis”, published in Energy Reports”, beneficiary: West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economic and Business Administration

• 2021: Solo Applicant - Grant PN-III-P1-1.1-PRECISI-2021-53832, Prize for research results 2021, for article ”Fuel price co-movements among France, Germany and Italy: A time-frequency investigation”, published in ”Energy”, beneficiary: West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economic and Business Administration

• 2021: Solo Applicant - Grant PN-III-P1-1.1-PRECISI-2021-54418, Prize for research results 2021, for article ”Heterogeneous effects of temperature and emissions on economic productivity across climate regime”, published in ”Science of the Total Environment”, beneficiary: West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economic and Business Administration

• 2016: Solo Applicant - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow, Loire Valley Institute for Advanced Studies, Orléans & Tours, France, The Smart Loire Valley Programme’s Fellowships, European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grand agreement n° 665790, European Commission

• 2016: Solo Applicant - Grant PN-III-P1-1.1-PRECISI-2016-12302, Prize for research results 2016, for article ”A bootstrap panel Granger causality analysis of energy consumption and economic growth in the G7 countries”, published in ”Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews”, beneficiary: West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economic and Business Administration

• 2016: Grant advisor - PN-III-P1-1.1-MCT-2016-0007, applicant Stan Mihaela-Elena, University College London, ”The impact of VAT changes on the Romanian companies”, at West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economic and Business Administration, ECREB research centre

• 2015: Solo Applicant - Grant PN-II-RU-PRECISI-2015-9-8897, Prize for research results 2015, for article ”A Frequency Domain Causality Analysis of Stock Market and Economic Activity in India”, published in ”International Review of Economics & Finance”, beneficiary: West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economic and Business Administration

• 2015: Chief Investigator, New tax policy implications of social and governance changes in European countries, PN III programme (under evaluation)

• 2014: Solo Applicant - Grant PN-II-RU-PRECISI-2014-8-4657, Prize for research results 2014, for article ”The influence of the international oil prices on the real effective exchange rate in Romania in a wavelet transform framework”, published in ”Energy Economics”, beneficiary: West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economic and Business Administration

• 2014-2015: Researcher expert - „Transnational cooperation for research consolidation through knowledge and innovation - Know Reset”, EEA Financial Mechanism 2009‐2014, partners: West University of Timisoara, Institute for Public Administration and Politics from University of Iceland in Reykjavik, and Institute for Economic Forecasting in Bucharest

• 2014-2015: Coordinator for developing of academic curricula and teaching syllabi -  “EDU4LIFE”, POSDRU/156/1.2/G/141271 grant project, beneficiary: West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economic and Business Administration

• 2013: Solo Applicant - Grant PN-II-RU-PRECISI-2013-7-2115, Prize for research results 2013, for article ”Environmental Kuznets curve in Romania and the role of energy consumption”, published in ”Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews”, beneficiary: West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economic and Business Administration

• 2007: Grant director - Grant CNCSIS, Type AT, “Financing models for regional development in Romania under perspectives of EU adherence and integration”, Contract no. 45 GR/07 June 2007, Cod CNCSIS: 63, beneficiary: West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economic and Business Administration

• 2005-2011: other 7 grants as member in research team