Category Archives: Publications

Sofia Business School Publications – lectures excerpts, articles, video articles and podcasts, books, links.

June 27, 2017

4th Industrial Revolution And TTIP, Dimo Dimov

Tags: 4th industrial revolution, design sprint, enterpreneurial design problems, enterpreneurship, innovation, SBS 2017, startups, the digital hospital, TTIP, unbundling of a bank, unbundling of a hotel

June 26, 2017

As Good As It Gets, Georgi Georgiev

Tags: agricultural commodities, BNB Foreign Exchange Reserves, Bulgaria Current Account to GDP, geopolitics, Macroeconomic Outlook, macroeconomics, Milling Wheat, Oil futures, SBS 2017, trade balance, US Dollar Index

June 25, 2017

The Trade Offs Of Different Privatisation Models For Governemnt Assets, Edward Farmer

Tags: competition, government assets, government policy, investment, monopoly, national interest, privatisation models, SBS2017

Navigating The Bond Market, Cavin O’Driscoll

Tags: Basel Committee, Bond Credit Ratings, bond dealers, bond markets, bond pricing, equity markets, investors, Navigating The Bond Market, SBS 2017, stock market, U.S. Bond Market

June 24, 2017

Dynamics Of The Oil And Gas Industry. The Effect On Bulgaria, Vasko Nachev

Tags: Bulgarian fuel market, crude oil prices, fuel consumption by region 2016, gas trade movements 2016, oil & gas, oil prediction, oil reserves, SBS2017

January 9, 2017

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents, Part 2: From Wilson to Obama (The Politically Incorrect Guides), Steven F. Hayward

October 18, 2016

Geopolitical & Geoenergy Dilemmas in the Intermarium Region – the US, EU and Russia Agendas, Mr. Thomas Pyle

Tags: EU, geoenergy, geopolitics, Russia, US

October 17, 2016

Geopolitical & Geoenergy Dilemmas in the Intermarium Region – the US, EU and Russia Agendas, Mr. S. Enders Wimbush

Tags: EU, geoenergy, geopolitics, Russia, US

June 29, 2016

The Sharing Economy: Effects On Innovation And Economic Development And Regulatory Challenges Ahead, Carlo Stagnaro

Tags: economic development, innovation, regulatory challenges, sharing economy

June 28, 2016

Opportunities And Threats From Emergency Monetary Policy In Europe, Anthony J. Evans

Tags: emergency monetary policy, Europe, opportunities and treats

June 27, 2016

Gold Money & BitGold, John Butler

Tags: BitGold, gold money

June 26, 2016

New Technology Threatens Traditional Banking Business, Gordon Kerr

Tags: new technology, traditional banking

June 25, 2016

The Geopolitics and Economics Of Current Migration In Europe, Alex Alexiev

Tags: economics, Europe, geopolitics, migration

April 22, 2016

Pre-launch seminar of the 5th edition of the Sofia Business School, Prof. Hursit Gunes, Dr. Nebil Ilseven and Mr Kanat Emiroglu

Tags: SBS 2016, Sofia Business School

March 6, 2016

Crises and Economic Growth, Prof. Leszek Balcerowicz

Tags: economic crises, economic growth

July 3, 2015

Regulation, Innovation, Disruption, Carlo Stagnaro

Tags: disruption, innovation, regulation

July 2, 2015

China’s silk road strategy: What does it mean to the world, Zhang Jianxin

Tags: China's Silk Road Strategy

June 29, 2015

The Emergence of Novel Institutional Arrangements Underlying Money, Payments and Finance

Tags: finance, money, novel institutional arrangements, payment

June 28, 2015

Math Gone Mad: Why Stress Tests Don’t Work, Prof. Kevin Dowd

Tags: stress tests

June 27, 2015

Islamic Finance or Financing Islamism, Alex Alexiev

Tags: finance, Islamism

Global Oil & Gas Trends, Vasko Nachev

Tags: oil & gas

June 2, 2015

Comparative Advantages in U. S. Bilateral Services Trade with China and India, Lirong Liu, Hiranya K. Nath and Kiril Tochkov

Tags: China, comparative advantages, India, trade, U.S.

May 15, 2015

Towards and alternative global currency, Dr. Douglas Jackson

Tags: currency, e-Gold

January 5, 2015

Financial & Fiscal Features Newsletter, December 2014

Tags: 6 phases of crisis, ECB Rancour, Enrico Colombatto, Financial & Fiscal Features Newsletter, Gordon Kerr, Institute for Research In Economic and Fiscal Issues, IREF, John Butler, Looking ahead, Market High, Publicity poster

December 5, 2014

Financial & Fiscal Features Newsletter, November 2014

Tags: 3 selling points, Enrico Colombatto, Financial & Fiscal Features Newsletter, Gordon Kerr, History of Tests, Institute for Research In Economic and Fiscal Issues, IREF, John Butler, Looking ahead, New Bank Test, The real story

August 12, 2014

Markets for Managers: A Managerial Economics Primer (The Wiley Finance Series), Anthony J. Evans

July 4, 2014

Economic Crises in Europe and the Balkans. What is Looming after Ukraine, Piritta Sorsa

Tags: economic crises, Europe, the Balkans, Ukraine

July 2, 2014

Leadership and Reforms, Kakha Bendukidze

Tags: leadership, reforms

July 1, 2014

China’s Economic Rise: Trends, Patterns, Challenges, Kiril Tochkov

Tags: challenges, China, economic rise, patterns, trends

June 29, 2014

Natural Gas – Risks and Prospects, Vasko Nachev

Tags: natural gas, risks and prospects

Global Currency Wars and the Future of the Euro, Gordon Kerr

Tags: currency, currency wars, Euro

Resetting EU and NATO – security risks in the post Crimean world, Alex Alexiev

Tags: EU, NATO, post Crimean world, security risks

May 19, 2014

Presentation of Ukraine, Kakha Bendukidze

Tags: Bulgaria, China, GDP, Georgia, Germany, Kakha Bendukidze, Poland, Romania, Ukraine

April 26, 2014

When is Ordinary Law-Making Tolerated?, Prof. Enrico Colombatto

Tags: law-making

April 3, 2014

Korean Challenges, Byoung-Joo Kim, PhD

Tags: Korean Economy

March 26, 2014

The Case for Systemic Banking Reform, Gordon Kerr

Tags: banking reform, Gordon Kerr, Institute for Research In Economic and Fiscal Issues, IREF

March 17, 2014

Kakha Bendukidze’s Lecture at Kyiv Mohyla Business School

Tags: Kakha Bendukidze, Kyiv Mohyla Business School, Ukraine

December 2, 2013

Business Today with Dr. Kim Byoung-joo (TPP vs RCEP)

Tags: Dr. Kim Byoung-joo, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, Trans Pacific Partnership trade

November 15, 2013

Introduction of Knowledge Sharing Program (KSP), Seo-Young Kim

Tags: knowledge sharing program, Korea

Bulgaria’s Economic Policies and Partnership With Korea, Ministry of economy and energy

Tags: Bulgaria, challenges, economic development, Korea, outcomes, partnership

Strategies of Economic Development: the Case of Korea, Dr. Hong Sang Yung

Tags: challenges, crisis management, development, economic crisis, government, growth strategies, Korean Economy

From “Development” to “Social Integration”: Politics of Financial Policies in South Korea, Heon Joo Jung, Ph. D.

Tags: crisis, economic development, financial, financial policy, microcredit, social inequality, social integration, South Korea

November 12, 2013

Economic Development: Korea’s Private Sector Experience, Byoung-Joo Kim

Tags: democratization, economic development, education, liberation, stabilization, the iron triangle, the park model

October 21, 2013

Gordon Kerr: Why Is JPMorgan So Quick to Agree to a $13B Fine?

Tags: Gordon Kerr, mortgage bonds

August 15, 2013

Monetary and Financial Initiatives Of The Civil Society, Prof. Nikolay Nenovsky

Tags: bitcoin, complementary currency, local money, monetary system

July 5, 2013

Lecture On Greece and Cyprus, Piritta Sorsa

Tags: crisis, Cyprus, Greece, SBS 2013

Building A Smarter Planet: Programs for Economic Recovery, Penko Dinev

Tags: computing era, SBS 2013, smart systems era, tabulating era

July 3, 2013

The failure to recognise risk: common factors behind business success/failure, Jane Fuller

Tags: business failure, business success, risk, SBS 2013

July 1, 2013

Euro: Problems and Solutions, Prof. Leszek Balcerowicz

Tags: banking, Bulgaria, crisis, Estonia, financial, fiscal, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Non-Keynesian effects, Portugal, SBS 2013, Spain

June 30, 2013

Central Banking And Systemic Instability, Prof. Kevin Dowd

Tags: banking, capital, financial, instability, regulation, SBS 2013, system

June 29, 2013

Bulgaria And the New Geopolitics Of Food And Water, Alex Alexiev

Tags: Bulgaria, food, geopolitics, SBS 2013, water

May 22, 2013

Gordon Kerr, Founder of Cobden Partners on the current situation in the Eurozone & Bulgaria

Tags: Bulgaria, Eurozone, Gordon Kerr

January 24, 2013

Gordon Kerr: ‘I was on the grassy knoll’

Tags: euro banking system, Gordon Kerr, UK

September 1, 2012

Bulgaria: Manifesto for Survival, Sofia Business School

Tags: banking system, currency peg, Eurozone exposure, hard currency board

August 4, 2012

Tackling the Debt Crisis Through Utilization of Applied Knowledge, SBS 2012 Edition, Hristian Daskalov

Tags: debt crisis

July 7, 2012

European Debt Crisis: Lessons from OECD Surveys, Piritta Sorsa

Tags: crisis, debt crisis, fiscal sustainability, SBS 2012

July 6, 2012

Russia: Oil Dependent Economy, Elena Lebedinskaya

Tags: fiscal policy, oil & gas, Russian economy, SBS 2012, Stabilization Fund

July 5, 2012

The China Story: A Free-market or Authoritarian miracle?, Kenli Schoolland

Tags: banking system, Chinese economy, development strategy, land development, SBS 2012, stock market

July 4, 2012

Is IFRS fit for purpose?, Gordon Kerr

Tags: banking, finance, Gordon Kerr, SBS 2012

Ruritania (CDS plus Securitisation), Gordon Kerr

Tags: banking, finance, Gordon Kerr, SBS 2012

Unravelling Structured Finance Derivatives, Gordon Kerr

Tags: asset management, banking, finance, Gordon Kerr, investment, SBS 2012, tax

July 1, 2012

Financial Markets and Risks, Prof. Kevin Dowd

Tags: financial markets, financial risk management, SBS 2012

Monetary Economics, Prof. Kevin Dowd

Tags: banking, gold standard, monetary systems, SBS 2012

April 10, 2012

The Golden Revolution, John Butler

February 2, 2012

Our Next Financial Crisis, Prof. Kevin Dowd

Tags: crisis, fina, Kevin Dowd

November 16, 2011

The Coming Fiat Money Cataclysm – and After, Prof. Kevin Dowd

September 13, 2011

The Decapitalization of the West, Prof. Kevin Dowd

Tags: decapitalization, Kevin Dowd

July 13, 2011

Markets, Morals and Policy Making, Enrico Colombatto

April 23, 2011

2011 Almanac of Environmental Trends, Steven F. Hayward

Tags: environmental trends

March 1, 2011

A Game Theory Interpretation of the Post-Communist Evolution, Prof. Nikolay Nenovsky

Tags: cooperation, game theory, post-communist evolution, social anchoring

November 2, 2010

The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution: 1980-1989, Steven F. Hayward

May 3, 2010

Alchemists of Loss: How modern finance and government intervention crashed the financial system, Kevin Dowd & Martin Hutchinson

June 9, 2009

The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order: 1964-1980, Steven F. Hayward

June 3, 2009

Flat Tax in the EU – “Something of Craze”? The Bulgarian Case, Chief Ass. Prof. Emil Kalchev

Tags: flat tax, neutral taxation, taxation in Bulgaria, taxation in EU

March 29, 2009

The Neoliberal Revolution in Eastern Europe: Economic Ideas in the Transition from Communism (New Thinking in Political Economy), Paul Dragos Aligica, Anthony John Evans

April 7, 2006

Living Standards and the Wealth of Nations: Successes and Failures in Real Convergence, Leszek Balcerowicz & Stanley Fischer

July 11, 2005

Measuring Market Risk, Kevin Dowd

March 5, 1998

Beyond Value at Risk: The New Science of Risk Management, Kevin Dowd

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