Republic or Monarchy? Is monarchy an alternative to the existing form of government? What are the sources of legitimacy of the monarch and the president? This paper provides answers given by Krassen Stanchev as early as 1996. (in Bulgarian only)

2001 (File size 39KB)

Conditions for Long-term Growth and Prosperity in the Balkans - In Search of Growth: Bulgaria's Lessons and Policy Options. IME report under the auspices of the Regional Networking Project, funded by the USAID with the kind support from Freedom House.
1999 (File size 52KB)

Democrats Go Populist The Union of Democratic Forces (UDF), the backbone of the ruling coalition in Bulgaria, United Democratic Forces, as well as their junior coalition partner, the Democratic Party (DP), held simultaneously their party conventions last weekend. The ruling party failed to respond to the major public concern, namely to the allegations of corrupt practice and clientele favoring behavior.
Written in 1999 (File size 10KB)

Minority Nationalism in the Balkans: the Bulgarian Case
1999 (File size 49KB)

Impacts of Yugoslav War On Bulgaria The institute is monitoring economic and political developments on the Balkans for five years. It maintains large network of professional contacts in all the countries, and in the days and weeks preceding the war IME researchers and I myself have been visiting all countries and provinces of the region working on a project Balkans In 2010.
1999 (File size 34KB)

Bulgaria '97 - The Last Try? As in the fairy tales, everyone has only three tries.
1998 (File size 21KB)

Will Democratic Government Fight Corruption? Trying to assess the prospects of Bulgarian Reforms, emerging market analysts fail to observe bureaucratic factors. But these were the factors that blocked reforms under the previous administration, and had played a major role during the "Technocratic" (1993-1994) and Socialist cabinets of 1995-1997.
1997 (File size 65KB)

April Elections: Democrats Strike Back, What's Next
For the first time in the post-Communist elections Bulgarians gave a full mandate to the non-Socialists. For a first time democrats have It took seven years, two hyperinflation peaks related to the Socialist rule and a total loss of confidence to bid farewell to their dreams to cut rents from a gradual transition.
1997 (File size 43KB)

External Financing Of The Bulgarian Economy During The Transition External Financing in the Context of the Structural and Stabilization Policies; The period between February 1991 and June 1992; The period between mid 1992 - early 1994; The period was between 1994 and early 1995; The fourth period started in early 1995.
1995 (File size 74KB)