The importance of analysing inflation sources and dynamics in Bulgaria is imposed by (i) the long run process of price and inflation convergence to the Euro area and (ii) by the Currency Board operating in the country. In this study we make an attempt to estimate Balassa - Samuelson (BS) effect...

The paper seeks to assess how a major policy regime change – such as the introduction of the currency board in Bulgaria – affects the flow of bank credit to the corporate sector. An attempt is made to identify the determinants of corporate credit separately from the viewpoint of lenders and...

Las políticas de compra de activos (QE, por sus siglas en inglés) implementadas en los últimos años por los bancos centrales han tenido un impacto profundo en el funcionamiento de los mercados monetarios, dando lugar a un gran exceso de reservas bancarias y presionando los tipos de interés...