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The question of who benefits and who loses from the transition, the channels and mechanisms of redistribution of wealth in the post-communist period, and the relation between redistribution and monetary regime are, in our opinion, fundamental in understanding theoretically the deep systemic...
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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...
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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...
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This paper analyses exchange rate control measures adopted in Italy and Bulgaria during the interwar period. The first two sections provide a detailed account of the institutional and economic framework in which these measures were enforced and interpret them utilizing statistical data. In the...
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This paper traces the origins of the different monetary regimes adopted in Bulgaria and Romania in 1996-97 and examines their performance during the EU accession. The findings indicate that the constraints of the currency board in Bulgaria shifted economic activity towards the private sector,...
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In the late 90's, after severe financial and economic crisis, accompanied by inflation and exchange rate instability, Eastern Europe emerged into two groups of countries with radically contrasting monetary regimes (Currency Boards and Inflation targeting). The task of our study is to compare...
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Симеон Сергеевич Демостенов е дългогодишен професор по политическа икономия в Софийския университет в периода между двете световни войни и може би най–...
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After more than two decades of transition and integration, countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) still exhibit income levels that are significantly lower than the European Union (EU) average. This paper examines convergence in per-capita GDP between CEE and the EU over the period...
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Bulgarian welfare system was significantly changed in the late 1990’s and in early 2000’s following the whole economic and political changes since the collapse of communist system. On the next lines an attempt to summarize the most important changes in the Bulgarian economy in the early...
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Both Marx and Menger are the originators of two vivid and highly recognisable schools of economic thought with long-lasting marks. Despite somehow simplistic reductions which lead to opposing them, their differences do not summarise the whole extent of their analysis. Without underestimating...
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