Public discontent with Mr. Lukashenko's authoritarian rule had been piling up for years and came to the surface after the fraudulent presidential election held in August 2020. At present the country is in a political stalemate as the official election results are challenged by a large part of...

This paper examines one specific aspect of the Bulgarian debt workout, namely its impact on the behaviour and performance of the enterprises which were covered in the program. In pursuing this goal we have followed two main lines of research. First, an attempt is made to evaluate the overall...

In 1996-97, while making its way through a difficult process of economic and political transformations, Bulgaria was hit by a severe economic crisis. This paper seeks to reveal and analyse the underlying factors and causes of this crisis. It focuses on empirical issues but also highlights some...

Under perfect competition and constant returns to scale, firms producing homogeneous products set their prices equal to marginal costs, which also equal their average costs. However, the departure from these standard assumptions has important implications with respect to the derived theoretical...