Bulgaria is moving toward a food processing and marketing system which resembles that of Western Europe and the U ….S. Large grocery chains from Germany, Austrai and Turkey are building supermarkets and hypermarkets in Bulgaria’s larger cities …. However, income in Bulgaria remains much lower than in Western Europe and most Bulgarian consumers cannot afford to shop in …

significant increase in the price of rice, especially in the south; second, liberalization of the fertilizer market and the sharp … market reforms can have a significant impact on incentives, without adverse consequences for income distribution. …

-setting behaviour of firms endowed with market power, and more specifically, using the notion of mark-up pricing. Using some recent …

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 …