Role of MSME Growth in Bulgaria's Banking Sector Competitiveness: A Post Crisis Perspective (1998-2007)

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2009 in the subject Economics - Finance, grade: 1,3, University of Portsmouth, language: English, abstract: enterprises (MSME) on banking sector competitiveness. In particular, it seeks to empirically establish meaningful relationships between individual corporate growth indicators and enhanced banking performance. Such indicators include but are not limited to: volume of domestic/export business; net contribution to the country's GDP; net contribution to the country's aggregate value added; level of innovative activity (as measured by R&D expenditure); increase in capital expenditure (e.g. tangible fixed assets). For reasons of comprehensiveness, total factor productivity (TFP) is utilized as quantitative measure of banking sector competitiveness. In light of the previous considerations, the proposed research question is: How does MSME growth impact competitiveness in the banking sector?