Seit dem 01. Januar 2007 ist Bulgarien Mitglied der Europäischen Union. Es ist unumstritten, dass ein gut entwickeltes …On the 1st of January 2007, Bulgaria became a member of the European Union. It is indisputable, that a well developed … Bank would face, if the cooperation between Bulgaria and the IMF ends in 2011 - as it is planned.The regulatory framework …

between Bulgaria and the European Union member countries for the period 1989-1998 are used in the respective regression …

implication that crime is unaffected by the magnitude of the penalty. This paper demonstrates that to attain this outcome, it is … equilibrium yield an inverse relationship between crime and the severity of the sanction. In an application, we enrich the … framework of Tsebelis by adding corruption stages and show that this can imply such a correlation of payoffs. Another …

activity that takes on transnational crime dimensions requires repressive legislation and international cooperation of …, in particular, money laundering, corruption, tax evasion, trafficking in human beings and as a transit country of drug …

results of an extensive ethnographic field study of the 2006 to 2008 Siemens corruption scandal. We find that this event did … corporate corruption with regard to its regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive dimensions. It is therefore particularly … perspective we reconstruct the development of the institutional context of the phenomenon corruption as well as its effects on the …

welfare through their decisions. Yet, cases of central bank corruption abound. The dissertation provides examples of ?pure …? corruption in central banks. Only a few studies address corruption and similar, but not necessarily criminal, behavior of central … bank employees and governors, even though corruption in the central bank is obviously possible. By the very nature of their …

in and that put their clout for the fight against corruption in question. Against this background, three novel anti-corruption …. What is more, legislation can also take advantage of these chinks to fight corruption effectively.In Section II it is … United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) are used as benchmarks. In addition, the respective legal provisions …

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 …