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In 1996/1997 Bulgaria was hit by a severe financial crisis, spreading from a banking crisis to a currency crisis … also show how Bulgaria managed to overcome the crisis by introducing a second generation currency board allowing the …
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Using Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys for 1995, 1997 and 2001 this paper explores determinants of labor force status – not working, public sector employment, private sector employment and self-employment – and earnings for each of the three employment sectors. We find that while...
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This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable ?quasi-experiment? for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...
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Using Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys for 1995, 1997 and 2001 this paper explores determinants of labor force status – not working, public sector employment, private sector employment and self-employment – and earnings for each of the three employment sectors. We find that while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263229
Starting July the 1st 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board (CB) monetary system. This paper aims at investigating if … better (with respect to other CEEC) monetary integration of Bulgaria with the European Monetary Union (EMU). Since Bulgarian … terms of integration of Bulgaria into the EMU. …
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expenditure surveys. We apply this method to the case of Bulgaria using LSMS income and expenditure surveys before and after a …
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developed. The empirical analysis using data from manufacturing firms in Bulgaria, provides direct estimates of credit rationing …
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quality management in Bulgaria since the end of communism, which can serve as an important foundation for the better …Purpose: This study analyzes the motivational factors for ISO 9001 certification in Bulgaria from the internal … approach, which employed two interviews with experts in the field of quality management at the exploratory stage, and a survey …
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We investigate the question, raised in the journal Die Betriebswirtschaft by Haller (2004), how quality management … influences the operating efficiency of German firms. To analyze the influence of quality management on credit rating we use the … proxy for the efficiency of the quality management. The results provide evidence that a high process capability is linked …
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The topic of this paper is the role of quality management systems in non-profit organizations. The paper focuses on the …
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