Application of Novel Research Methods

Camelia Oprean-Stan teaches and researches in the areas of finance in the Department of Finance and Accounting, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu. Her research interests also include capital markets, financial management, sustainable finance.

List of contributors – Foreword – Introduction – Alina Georgeta Ailincă: The impact of institutional indicators on some indicators of welfare and social equity, education and health – Gabriela- Mariana Ionescu: New research methods from the social justice perspective – Emil Dinga and Cristina Tănăsescu: Conceptual and methodological issues to calculate the sustainable GDP – Camelia Oprean- Stan and Sebastian Emanuel Stan: A bootstrap subsample rolling window causality method for analyzing the relationship between natural gas consumption and economic growth – Renate Bratu, Bogdan Mârza and Răzvan Șerbu: Exploring a metamorphosed world economy by the impact of artificial intelligence on the contemporary economic trends – Nadia Sghaier: Recent global crises and sectoral stock market returns – Marian Pompiliu Cristescu, Dumitru Alexandru Mara, Raluca Andreea Nerișanu and Lia Cornelia Culda: Leveraging free tools in financial sentiment analysis – Emil Dinga: On cyclicality and intrinsic rhythm in time series – Vasile Brătian and Camelia Oprean- Stan: Option pricing using the Black- Scholes methodology vs. using the Feynman- Kac theorem: Comparative approach – Amelia Bucur: Applications of novel fuzzy optimization methods – Iustina Tudor and Nicolae Ionescu: New methods and models applicable in the development of co- created products – Deepa Pillai and Trupti Bhosale: Reconstructive mixed method for financial distress and bankruptcy prediction.