ABOUT IME - ADVOCACY AND PIONEERING RESEARCH

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    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 Priority Issues in Improving SEE Mortgage Finance – www.ceemortgagefinance.org (2003 - ongoing)
    " Internet Provision of Economic Knowledge in Bulgarian via Economics Access Station on Internet - 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 – www.ria-studies.net (2005).