REFERENCES Almunia, M., Bénétrix, A.S., Eichengreen, B., O’Rourke, K.H., and Rua, G. (2009), “From Great Depression to Great Credit Crisis: Similarities, Differences and Lessons”, Paper presented at the 50th Economic Policy Panel Meeting, held in Tilburg on October 23-24, Institute for International Integration Studies, IIIS Discussion Paper No.303 November 2009, http://www.econ.berkeley.edu/~eichengr/great_dep_great_cred_11-09.pdf. Box, G.E.P., N.R. Draper (1987), ”Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces”, Wiley-Interscience, 688pp. Quotation from “Dictionary of Science Quotations”, http://www.todayinsci.com/B/Box_George/BoxGeorge-Quotations.htm. Claessens, S., M.A. Kose and M.E. Terrones (2010), “The Global Financial Crisis: How Similar? How Different? How Costly?”, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1573958, Accessed on February 2010. Dobrescu E. (2004), “Double Conditioned Potential Output”, Paper for the 28th General Conference of The International Association for Research in Income and Wealth Cork, Ireland, August 22 – 28, 2004; Romanian Journal of Economic Forecasting, 7(1): 32-50. Dobrescu E. (2006a), “Integration of Macroeconomic Behavioural Relationships and the Input-Output Block (Romanian Modelling Experience)”, Paper presented at the International Conference on Policy Modelling (Ecomod), Hong Kong, June 28-30. Dobrescu E. (2006b), “Macromodels of the Romanian Market Economy”, Bucuresti: Editura Economică. Dobrescu E. (2007), “Stochastic simulations on the Romanian macroeconomic model” (with Bianca Pauna), Paper presented at the Thirty Fourth International Conference MACROMODELS’2007 and Modelling Economies in Transition, 5-8 December 2007, Raszyn, Poland - Macromodels, pp. 61-84. Dobrescu E. (2008), “A Desirable Scenario for the Romanian Economy during 2008- 2013. Some Considerations Concerning the Global Economic Context”, Romanian Journal of Economic Forecasting, 9(4): 15-58. Eichengreen, B. (2009), “Will Global Imbalances Return?”, Project-Sindicate, A World of Ideas http://www.projectsyndicate. org/commentary/eichengreen5/English. Government of Romania (2010), “Convergence Programme 2009-2012”, http://discutii.mfinante.ro/static/10/Mfp/pdc/Programconvergenta_ro.pdf, Accessed on February. Luo J. (2009), “Which Industries to Bail out First in Economic Recession? Ranking Industrial Sectors by the Power-of-Pull”, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1430162. National Commission for Prognosis (2009), “Autumn Forecast – 2009, Projection of Main Macroeconomic Indicators for the Period 2009-2014”, November; http://www.cnp.ro/user/repository/prognoza_2009- 2014_%20varianta_de_toamna_2009.pdf. National Commission for Prognosis (2010), “Forecast for Elaboration of the Fiscal- Budgetary Strategy”, Project offered by NCP. Otiman, P.I. (2009), “Rural Development and Agriculture: Opportunities to Attenuate the Economic-Financial Crisis and to Restart the Economic Growth” (in Romanian); in cooperation with Davidovici I., Toderoiu F., Alexandri C., Gavrilescu C., Luca L., Goşa V., Nagy-Feher A. Paper for the scientific session of Section “Economic, Law, and Sociological Sciences” of the Romanian Academy, 14 April. Manuscript. Quintos, P.L. (2008), “The Global Financial Crisis and its Implications for Workers of the World”, Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research, International, Posted by Bulatlat, Published on September 21, 2008, http://bulatlat.com/main/2008/09/21/the-globalfinancial- crisis-and-its-implications-for-workers-of-the-world/. Institute of Economic Forecasting Reinhart, C.M. (2008), “Eight hundred years of financial folly”, VOX - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists, 19 April, http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1067. Reinhart, C.M. and K.S. Rogoff (2009), “This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly”, NY: Princeton University Press. The UN conference on the financial crisis and development: outcomes and follow-up prospects (2009), http://www.eurodad.org/aid/article.aspx?id=132&item=3738, Accessed on June 2010.