The paper presents a cross-country analysis of the second generation of currency boards (CB) introduced in three East European countries: Bulgaria, Estonia and Lithuania. We focus on their institutional, legal and political characteristics which are closely associated with the operation of the...

The paper generalizes benefits and costs of potential official euroisation of Bulgarian economy in the process of accession to European Union and European Monetary Union. Since Bulgarian has a currency board the paper emphasizes on the comparison of current monetary regime and official...

The transitional period is always connected to redistribution processes and change in the financial wealth of the economic agents. The examination of the redistribution of wealth and its dynamics is important related to the possibilities for a more complete study and rationalization of the...

Countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) still exhibit lower income levels than the European Union (EU) average. This paper examines convergence in per-capita GDP between CEE and the EU over the period 1990-2012 using parametric and nonparametric methods. The results indicate initial...

The paper makes a comparative analysis of two original theories for international trade and protectionism in Bulgaria and Romania between the two World Wars, as a product of the specific economic environment, as well as the distribution of the economic ideas coming from economically developed...

[eng] Can we measure the institutional change of the monetary regime ? . The paper explores the possibilities to measure the institutional change in the monetary field. A political economy theoretical framework is built up, where the monetary regime change is analysed as the outcome of the...

REFERENCE to Laslo Csaba. The New Political Economy of Emerging Europe. Budapest, Akademia Kiado, 2005, 359 ñ.

The monetary theory (theory of money order), which is an integral part of Haieks views on order, has not been sufficiently popularized among Bulgarian readers. When it is referred to, the following are usually mentioned, without going into detail: monetary explanation of crises and cycles, the...