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This paper outlines the evolution of foreign direct investments in Romania during the period 2003-2012. Based on official data and the extensive use of modern presentation techniques and econometric instruments, the research procedure reveals useful conclusions for the analysis and interpretation of this macroeconomic indicator.

Investment volume, even with strong economic crisis, domestic and international, has remained constant, with slight increases from one period to another, until 2008, when they triggered the crisis. Specific is that investment funds were directed to imports of machinery, ignoring the Romanian industry's ability to become, through refurbishment, competitive in the external market.

The applicative part of the analysis assumes to elaborate, respectively test from the econometric viewpoint, a functional model that can be applied to Romanian macro-economical reality, to issue conclusions, thouroughly justified from both theoretical and functional points of view related to the manner in which the dynamics, structure and level of foreign direct investments realized in Romania during 2003-2010 induced significant influences on the fiscal prelevations collected in the national budget.

In the context of the knowledge economy, the investment is a goal of all entities, because they help to increase their competitiveness, which leads to achieving high performance. The existing research in this field shows the importance of the national investment climate in order to attract the foreign investment, without mentioning the organizational investment climate. This paper proposes a microeconomic approach to the investment climate and competitiveness, and the relationship between the two concepts. Obviously, the organizational perspective approach of the investment climate and competitiveness brings up the concept of the organizational culture and the individual competitiveness. This is because the performance of an entity (natural or legal) is assured by the existence competitiveness as a result of a strong corporate culture based on innovation, creativity, effective investment (especially human resources).

The authors point out in this article particular economic analysis using dynamic series of moments based on the two types of series of moments: moments series intervals between moments and some moments with unequal intervals between them are processing their variants.