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Interest rates and the credit expansion
In the banking system there is an ongoing process of substituting the limited access to external financing with domestic lending resource, which reasonably led to increasing costs of financial institutions to attract funds from residents. From time to time there are new suggestions for government intervention on the loanable fun...
The housing price decline from a global perspective
While such a comparison might provide useful information about the current state of housing markets around the world, it might also force misleading conclusions regarding future residential market developments. The real estate market in general is heavily dependent on macroeconomic fundamentals. Bulgaria is still lagging behind ...
Personal Assets in Bulgaria in Q3 2009
The growth potential of personal wealth is constrained by the stagnation on the labor market, visible through declining incomes and increasing unemployment, which will probably continue to pick up in 2010 as well. Nevertheless, there are existing factors, which stimulate the growth of wealth. In times of crisis households save, ...
Euro Inflation in 2009
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Selected Macro Data - weekly update
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Two years of global crisis: the Bulgarian economy in 2009
• The onset of the financial crisis in 2007 coincided with a period of rapid economic growth in Bulgaria, driven primarily by investment activity. It is difficult to differentiate how much exactly the dynamics of the Bulgarian economy has been a a result of fundamental factors, related to increasing productivity and the improvem...
What Do Bulgarians Want
According to a sociological survey among 1200 Bulgarians carried out by Market Links the main priorities of the next Bulgarian government should be to pursue higher salaries and pensions. Data for December 2008 show that the average monthly salaries compared to December 2007 have risen by 22.8%, from 421 to 517 lv. Divided by ty...
Nine Brave Forecasts by Industry Watch
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