The study presents the results from the study of 292 SME from the border regions of Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania and Greece. Collected and analyzed is sufficiently full and certain information about the state of the cross-border business relations, about the difficulties and barriers, which...

The main objective of the study is to determine the place, weight and if possible the tendencies in the development of the sector of small and medium enterprises in Bulgaria in the period 1996 – 1999. The analysis is based on data from annual balance sheets and reports for incomes and costs of...

This study makes evaluation and classification of the industrial enterprises in Bulgaria according to their performance by the form of ownership and their juridical status (traditional and corporatized state enterprises, privatized and newly created private enterprises), by their market share...

During the period of centrally planning in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries the officially applied accounting system was the so-called Material Product System (MPS), which has been different from the System of National Accounts (SNA). This hampered the international comparisons...

The study is aimed at analysing basic features and developments of the new endogenous growth theory. The first section gives proof of the origins of this theory. The second section presents the basic ideas of the new modern (endogenous) growth theory, as they are developed by its founders and...

In the new conditions of creating a knowledge-based economy the role of R&D expenditures strongly increases and changes in its character. This increases the interest in the matters of qualitative defining of the dependency between them and the economic growth. The study analyzes the connection...

Basic conceptual, statistical and measurement aspects of the intangible assets are considered regarding to their contribution to the economic growth. The increasing importance of the intangible assets in the modern economy is described. The role of the intangible assets in the creating of the...

The paper discusses the change of the influence of certain branches and branch changes on the economic growth, particularly the labor productivity observed in the last few decades. As a result the processing industry is replaced by the service sector, which gradually becomes dominating since...

The study presents the evolution of ideas concerning the determinants of the long-term economic growth and the contemporary understandings of them. Based on the achievements in this area, new findings are sought in support of some and in argument of other theses. Based on critical analysis of...

The study is aimed at analysing basic methodological issues of GDP estimates converted into a common currency using PPPs in the practice of international comparisons as well as at relating these issues to estimation of real GDP for Bulgaria. The first section considers the PPPs concept and its...