Pioneered Research
Responding to the need to maintain market orientation of the reforms and develop argument to support this orientation, IME was the first Bulgaria institution to research and publish on:
• Bulgarian Business Associations and Their Services (1993-1995)
• Transparency of Capital Markets (1993-1995, 1998)
• Barriers to Growth in the Balkans (1995-1997, in cooperation with the Balkan Network)
• Private Sector Transaction Costs (1996, 1999-2001)
• Informal Employment (1996-1997)
• Informal Credit Markets in Poor Regions (1995,1998-1999)
• Public Procurement Impacts on State Enterprise (1997)
• Creation of Competitive Clusters (1996-1998, 2000-2001)
• Regulation Impact Analysis of bills in pipeline (1999-2004, ongoing)
• Border Crossing Procedures and Transport Costs (1996-1997)
• Bi-monthly Monitoring of the Business Environment (1999-2003)
• Refugee Impacts on Host Country (1999-2000)
• Mortgage Financing and Mortgage Bonds Act (1998-2000)
• Weekly Reviews of Economic Policy (2000-2004, ongoing, 80% reprinting rate in the national press)
• Policies to Reduce Administrative Regulations of Economic Activities with FIAS (1999-2000) and Bannock Consulting (2000-2001)
• Competitiveness of the Bulgarian Economy (sector surveys including finance 2000-2001)
• Informal Economy of Bulgaria (2000-2001, in cooperation with AECD and Harvard University, and 2003-2004 in cooperation with WIIW, LSE and ELIAMEP)
• Policy Analysis and Organizing Platform for Discussion of P riority Issues in Improving SEE Mortgage Finance – http://www.ceemortgagefinance.org/(2003 – ongoing)
• Internet Provision of Economic Knowledge in Bulgarian via Economics Access Station on Internet – http://www.easibulgaria.org/(2001, ongoing);
• Credit Information Bureau Feasibility Study (2002-2004);
• Informal and Bank Credit in Sofia Residential Construction (2004);
• Regional Labour Migration (2004-2005);
• Establishing an Internet Navigation and Tool for Regulation Impact Analysis – http://www.ria-studies.net/(2005).
• Factors and Impacts in the Information Society: A Prospective Analysis in Bulgaria (2003 -2005 ).
• Informal Construction Credit In Sofia” and “Real Estate Market Potential in Golden Sands and Sunny Beach” (2004-2005) – restricted distribution
