The purpose of this study is to examine the short-horizon stock behaviour following large monthly price changes of the large, liquid stocks in the Indian stock market. The event study methodology is used with two different methodologies and three abnormal return computational methods to improve the robustness and reliability of the results. This study evidences significant reversals following both large price declines and increases up to six months. Further, stronger initial shocks were followed by stronger reversals. The results are consistent with the ‘overreaction hypothesis’ in the Indian stock market. The results are robust to microstructure effects, extreme events, industry, period, methodology and market effects. The abnormal returns following large price declines might be economically significant with potential economic profits for traders.

As a stage of technological changes, digitalisation opens a new world for human society and economic development, where the traditional views on the labour market face significant challenges. The current study presents the views on the nature of digitalisation, its manifestation according to the adopted measurement indicators, and the place of Bulgaria in these processes. The study focuses on the discussions in the economic literature on two important issues about the impact of digitalisation on the labour market. The first issue is what quantitative changes are possible in labour/job demand as humans are replaced by technology. The second issue is what changes occur in the nature of labour, respectively, in the professions and skills of the employees.

The present study analyses wage income inequality in Bulgaria during the period 2010-2019, using data from the National Revenue Agency (NRA) on the actual incurred income of taxpayers and survey data on wage income from the Household Budget Survey of the National Statistical Institute (NSI). Key indicators of income inequality are derived under both approaches, which are compared and evaluated through descriptive analysis. The NSI survey data permanently underestimates the level of income and inequality in its distribution, as evidenced by the Gini coefficient, the decile and percentile ratios, as well as other indicators based on them.

The One Belt, One Road Initiative (OBOR/BRI) is a global programme to finance transport (rail and highway) and energy infrastructure, mainly in Central Asian countries, in the form of cash loans provided on unfavourable (market) terms compared to financing from donors in Western Europe (including the EU) or from development banks. The present study is an attempt to summarize the achievements and problems in the implementation of this initiative. The aim is to show the possible opportunities for Bulgaria to join the BRI given the complex political-economic global environment, marked by the difficulties in overcoming the Kovid-19 pandemic and the consequences of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Our main interest is focused on the inclusion of the territory of our country in the launched international transport corridors and the possibility of their continuation within this initiative.

The empirical research aims to identify the motives of NGOs for initiating and entering into partnerships with business. The study was conducted using a web-based questionnaire completed by 112 non-profit organizations in Bulgaria. It was found that the main motives of these organizations are related to the opportunities for financial support, in-kind donations and management of larger projects of public importance. The Wilcoxon signed ranks test applied confirms the presence of a statistically significant difference between financial support and other motives. At the same time, partnerships between the two sectors in Bulgaria, at least from the NGOs' point of view, are still in their early stages of development. Their support for strategic partnerships with business as a sustainable approach to current global challenges is also marginal.

SOEs are again becoming the subject of research interest. Silenced during and after the wave of privatisation, the topic is resurfacing in connection with Bulgaria's participation in the Eurozone. On this occasion, the monograph of the two scientists from the Institute of Economic Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, prof. Spartak Keremidchiev and Dr. Miroslav Nedelchev, who set themselves a large-scale goal - to identify the state of affairs and to bring out the most important problems of corporate governance of state-owned enterprises so that they can be solved by appropriate means.

Dealing with the rapid development and application of new technologies and with the accompanying economic and societal changes, the question of their theoretical rethinking as a basis for correct management decisions is nowadays more and more urgent. A response to this need is the recently published book by Profs. Mariana Mazzucato's "The Purposeful Economy", dedicated to the problem of overcoming the crisis of capitalism by solving contemporary development challenges. In it, the author proposes a theoretical rethinking of both the new realities and the accompanying problems, as well as possible new practical solutions aimed at overcoming the crisis of capitalism, understood as the inability to tackle the new problems through the traditional mechanisms of the market.