Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rumyana Lilova Author-Workplace-Name: D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics Author-Name: Petko Angelov Author-Workplace-Name: D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics Title: THE BUDGET BALANCE – TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL ASPECTS Abstract: The paper focuses on issues related to the procedure for determining the different types of budget balance in compliance with the consolidated fiscal programme (CFP) and the national budget, and their economic interpretation. The paper also specifies that the numeric value which states the difference between the value of receipts and the value of outlays depends on the absolute sum of expenditure on interest payments on internal and external loans. The dynamics of the difference between the values of receipts and outlays under the CFP and under the national budget is analysed. We prove that the rate of change in the consolidated cash budget balance does not match the rate of change in the cash balance on the national budget. We also identify the relation between analysed balance variables and the reference values approved by the Maastricht Treaty and set in the Public Finance Act. An analysis is made of the effect which the rate of change in the nominal value of receipts and outlays exercises on the dynamics of analysed cash budget balances. Finally, we arrive at the conclusion that the value and the relative share of the budget balance in the GDP do not pose a threat to public finance stability. Classification-JEL: H61; H62 Keywords: consolidated fiscal program, national budget, budget balance, budget deficit, budget surplus Journal: Economic Archive Pages: 3-14 Issue: 1 Year 2017 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10610/3341 Handle: RePEC:dat:earchi:y:2017:i:1:p:3-14 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Irina Kazandzhieva-Yordanova Author-Workplace-Name: UNWE Title: TOO BIG TO FAIL DOCTRINE AND THE FINANCIAL SAFETY NET Abstract: The global financial crisis of 2007-2009 has revealed the negative effects of the TBTF doctrine and the need to take measures to limit government intervention in cases of insolvency of systemically important banks. In the EU, such measures were taken mostly in the supervision of systemically important banks, the capital requirements, the capacity of banks to absorb losses by using domestic resources, and deposit gurantee schemes. The study focuses on the development of a financial safety net. Priority is given to deposit guarantee schemes, which are an essential component of the financial safety net. The evolution of deposit guarantee schemes is studied and an analysis of its impact on the TBTF doctrine is made. The survey has shown that the development of deposit insurance has contradictory effects on the TBTF doctrine. Classification-JEL: G21; G28 Keywords: systemically important banks, deposit guarantee schemes, financial safety net, TBTF, depositors Journal: Economic Archive Pages: 15-35 Issue: 1 Year 2017 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10610/3342 Handle: RePEC:dat:earchi:y:2017:i:1:p:15-35 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Baki Huseinov Author-Workplace-Name: Economic Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Title: HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT – ECONOMIC EFFECTS AND MARKET ASPECTS Abstract: Human capital is the foundation of modern knowledge for growth, employment and social development. In terms of modern polity, we observe spending of large public resources, providing for both formation of national human capital through the system of government-funded education and long-term preservation of its generated value through the system of health care and social assistance. Seen through the prism of social choice theory, economics and labour market, human capital development is logically defined as a task of paramount importance in any modern political doctrine of social development. The aim of the study is to systematize and critically examine the basic issues related to the process of human capital development in terms of economic growth and labour market. Classification-JEL: J24; J64 Keywords: human capital; labour market Journal: Economic Archive Pages: 38-56 Issue: 1 Year 2017 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10610/3343 Handle: RePEC:dat:earchi:y:2017:i:1:p:38-56 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Taner Ismailov Author-Workplace-Name: D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics Title: FINANCIAL ASPECTS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF SOCIAL POLICY IN THE REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA DURING THE PERIOD 2000-2015 Abstract: The article studies the state and development trends in the social policy of the Republic of Bulgaria during the period 2000-2015. The significance of this study has been determined by the fact that in accordance with the Consolidated Fiscal Programme, the costs made by the state in order to keep its social policy and compared to its GDP over the same period, have ranged between the considerable 14.35% and 18.39%. During the analysed period the state was striving for expanding the scope and opportunities for development of the social policy. Despite the changes in the economic conjuncture, the amount of funds that have been spent on social protection has been growing, which is an irrefutable evidence of the stable and sustainable social policy of the Republic of Bulgaria. Classification-JEL: G28; H55; J18 Keywords: social policy, CFP, expenditures by functions "Social Security and Welfare", "Health Care" Journal: Economic Archive Pages: 57-69 Issue: 1 Year 2017 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10610/3344 Handle: RePEC:dat:earchi:y:2017:i:1:p:57-69 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Boyko Petev Author-Workplace-Name: D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics Title: SPECIFIC VAT REGIMES IN THE EU - METHODICAL CASES AND SOLUTIONS Abstract: The differences in tax systems of the member-states of the European Union as well as the specific VAT regimes require passing through varying degrees of approximation, including the complete unification of some of them in order to improve tax collection. Thus the legal framework of the tax system of the EU sets taxes common to every state and those which reflect national specificities and exist only by virtue of tradition or by the peculiarities of the economy of the country. They inherently have unique problems and differ from one another because the parties are free to choose a tax system that is considered to be the most effective for their conditions, provided that the general rules are observed. Classification-JEL: F53;F55; H26 Keywords: taxation, VAT, specific regimes, tax legislation, EU Journal: Economic Archive Pages: 70-82 Issue: 1 Year 2017 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10610/3345 Handle: RePEC:dat:earchi:y:2017:i:1:p:70-82