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Lecture Excerpts from Sofia Business School Master Classes.

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

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

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

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

April 3, 2014

Korean Challenges, Byoung-Joo Kim, PhD

Tags: Korean Economy

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

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