foreign banks in Bulgaria and argue that the current predominance of foreign banks is unlikely to be permanent, even without … government action. Foreign banks have entered Bulgaria several times—before World War I, again after that war, and after the fall …

Ottoman rule, newly independent Bulgaria adopted the bimetallic standard. Without being a member of the Latin Monetary Union … concerned the limit on silver coinage. The absence of such a clause in Bulgaria turned out to be crucial since the financial … acquired the right to issue silver-backed banknotes. Soon after that, in 1906, Bulgaria introduced a short-lived typical Gold …

The importance of analysing inflation sources and dynamics in Bulgaria is imposed by (i) the long run process of price … an attempt to estimate Balassa - Samuelson (BS) effect in Bulgaria (after the introduction of the Currency Board). The BS …

convey. As one would expect, as regimes change, so do the banknotes. Bulgaria has a rich history of change having gone from …

In 1996/1997 Bulgaria was hit by a severe financial crisis, spreading from a banking crisis to a currency crisis. While … hazard models of currency crises than the Asian Crisis. We also show how Bulgaria managed to overcome the crisis by …

Bulgaria's transition to a market economy has coincided with a large increase in wage inequality. Given the emphasis on … wage leveling in pre-transition Bulgaria, the rise in wage inequality may be due to managers rewarding more productive …, nationally representative Bulgaria Integrated Household Survey, I examine whether gender discrimination is an important factor …

The mass privatization program in Bulgaria was implemented in 1996-97. Following programs in countries like the Czech … finds that Bulgaria avoided some of the extreme problems that manifested themselves in these other countries, but there were …