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Trade and Foreign Direct Investment with Central and Eastern Europe: Its Impact on Spain
Gual, Jordi; Martín, Carmela - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
-intensive industries, which will confront export displacement in third (EU) markets and some foreign direct investment (FDI) diversion … diversion, however, since alternative locations in the CEECs provide lower cost export bases and a significantly better access …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136499
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Employment impact in the European economic community (EC) countries of east-west trade flows.
D, Schumacher - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1989
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010967075
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Learning and Dynamic Comparative Advantage: Lessons from Austria's Post-war Pattern of Growth for Eastern Europe
Marin, Dalia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
This paper looks at Austria's pattern of development and its lessons for Eastern Europe. Austria's development path is characterized by three features. In the post-war era Austria was among the countries with the fastest convergence rate. At the same time Austria's movement up the technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666891
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The External Sector, the State and Development in Eastern Europe
Eichengreen, Barry; Kohl, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
the transition. The Czech Republic and Hungary have had some success moving into the production and export of more … helps to explain the strong export performance of the region. The technological and organizational implications of OPT are …-insensitive export products that offer countries insulation from foreign competition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123672
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The Potential for Trade Between the Countries of EFTA and Central and Eastern Europe
Baldwin, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
Recent events, historical evidence and geographical proximity suggest that the six EFTAns and twelve Central and East European countries (CEECs) are natural trading partners. This paper evaluates this suggestion by estimating the potential for EFTA-CEEC trade using the gravity model of Wang and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662064
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The Trading Potential of Eastern Europe
Wang, Zhen Kun; Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991
This paper fits a gravity model to the trade of 76 market economies. It then applies the model to data on East European economies to estimate what their trading potential might have been, had behaved like market economies in the mid-1980s. At existing levels of national income, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662085
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Tying, Risk-Sharing, and `Lock-In': An Investigation of Countertrade Contracts
Marin, Dalia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
The paper sees countertrade - the tying of trade flows - as an insurance contract that mitigates contractual hazards and reduces the incentive for ex post `hold-up' when parties are `locked' in a relationship after they have made specific investment. This way tying is seen as a commitment device...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123662
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Industrial Policy and Restructuring in Eastern Europe
Hare, Paul G; Hughes, Gordon - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
Using input-output and world price data, this study computes domestic resource costs (DRCs) for branches of manufacturing industry in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and the former Soviet Union. The results show a wide dispersion of DRCs in each country, including branches with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124050
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Problems of Post-CMEA Trade and Payments
Rosati MEP, Dariusz - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
The demise of the CMEA trading system in 1991 and the shift to convertible currency settlements and world market prices was expected to bring about a severe contraction of intra-group trade, coupled with large imbalances in trade between Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The observed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136560
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Making Sense of the Soviet Trade Shock in Eastern Europe: A Framework and Some Estimates
Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
the Soviet trade shock caused by the collapse of the CMEA and of traditional export markets in the Soviet Union. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136681