Negative Impacts of the Neo-liberal Policies on the Banking Sector in Bulgaria

• Autorzy: Rossitsa Rangelova Pavlova , Grigor Sariiski
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

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 а 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.(original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

PL

Sektor bankowy; Polityka gospodarcza; System bankowy w gospodarce rynkowej; Studium przypadku

EN

Banking sector; Economic policy; Banking system in market economy; Case study

• Czasopismo: Contemporary Economics
• Rocznik: 2015
• Tom: 9
• Numer: nr 1
• Strony: 61-76

Twórcy

autor

Rossitsa Rangelova Pavlova

• Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Economic Research Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria

autor

Grigor Sariiski

• Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Economic Research Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria

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DOI

10.5709/ce.1897-9254.160