Artikel

Negative impacts of the neo-liberal policies on the banking sector in Bulgaria

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 peak of the liberal policies. Bulgaria offers a particularly interesting example because the country encountered a very difficult transition from one extreme of an economic system organization to another. The paper considers the reforms in the Bulgarian banking sector during the transition period from a centrally planned to a market type economy (from 1989 onward) through the implementation of neo-liberal policies. The development of the banking sector and its transformation is analyzed throughout the two main periods: before and after the transition. The latter is divided into two sub-periods (phases) beginning with the early 1990s, followed by the financial and bank crisis in the country, the introduction of a currency board regime in 1997, and stabilization, and ending with the global crisis in 2008 - 2009. This article summarizes that during the transition period, a modern banking system was established to accumulate profit rather than to promote economic growth. Following a chronological order, the negative effects of the liberalization of the Bulgarian banking sector are specified: the exportation of ownership (and control) upon banking system assets, unfair asset redistribution, the emergence of the local oligarchy, the weak protection of the taxpayers and others.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Contemporary Economics ; ISSN: 2084-0845 ; Volume: 9 ; Year: 2015 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 61-75 ; Warsaw: Vizja Press & IT

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
History of Economic Thought: Macroeconomics
History of Economic Thought since 1925: Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Austrian; Stockholm School
Central Banks and Their Policies
Thema
neo-liberal policies
transition from centrally planned to a market type economy
financial sector
Bulgarian banking system

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Pavlova, Rossitsa Rangelova
Sariiski, Grigor
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Vizja Press & IT
(wo)
Warsaw
(wann)
2015

DOI
doi:10.5709/ce.1897-9254.160
Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Pavlova, Rossitsa Rangelova
  • Sariiski, Grigor
  • Vizja Press & IT

Entstanden

  • 2015

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