From the beginning of the 1970s until the last global financial and economic crisis in 2008 - 2009, neo-liberal ideas guided economic policy development. It is worth noting that the Central and Eastern European countries transformed their economies from centrally planned to a market type at the...

This article is a brief review of developments in the banking sector in Bulgaria as well as an analysis of the political and macroeconomic factors that have influenced this process. It begins with a historical overview of the different stages in the evolution of the Bulgarian financial sector....