After promising beginnings towards transformation, in 1991 the Bulgarian economy fell into deep crisis in the period from 1995 to 1997. Social policy, already overstrained due to the demands of transition, was unable to cope effectively with the rapidly spreading state of emergency. The...

Privatisation in Central and Eastern Europe can be defined as the transfer of property rights from the State to private owners. The transfers are carried out so as to vest the new private owners with the full property rights of use and disposal over their property, these rights being guaranteed...

All countries of Central and Eastern Europe had to bear and are still bearing tremendous costs of the economic and political transformation. This paper deals with the case of Bulgaria. We describe the social situation and the most important social security institutions in Bulgaria (unemployment...

The paper describes three stages of the privatisation process in Bulgaria 1990-1997. In the first period (1990-1993) progress was very slow. Only after 1993 a significant privatisation started. Mainly retail shops, restaurants and small businesses of various kinds were sold. In 1996 a programme...

The paper presents the results of a large study of the current state of the corporate governance in Bulgaria, made in the light of the established principles and standards of corporate governance in the country and good practices in other economies. For this purpose two empirical studies are...

In connection with finalizing the project “Confirming Standards for Good Corporate Governance in Bulgarian Industry” financed by the Science Fund, a scientific conference on the topic was carried out on 14th March 2014 in Economic Research Institute at BAS. Nine papers were presented at the...

In connection with finalizing the project “Confirming Standards for Good Corporate Governance in Bulgarian Industry” financed by the Science Fund, a scientific conference on the topic was carried out on 14th March 2014 in Economic Research Institute at BAS. Nine papers were presented at the...

The Republic of Bulgaria has been a Member State of the European Union since 2007. Its economic development has been framed by a Currency Board Arrangement (binding the national currency to the euro) since 1997. Recent development is characterised by slow economic growth. Preliminary GDP data...

The accelerated process of contemporary technology change corresponding accelerated qualitative changes in the man thinking revolution, in the concepts for society development. There is not enough knowledge on technology change as an economic object of investigation. In this connection the aim...

On 3 July, 2008, it is one year since the death of the esteemed Bulgarian scientist Professor, Dr. Ec. Scs. Alexander Dimitrov, a former Director of the Institute of Economics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Editor- in-Chief of the “Economic Thought” magazine, one of the fellow...