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Die politischen und wirtschaftlichen Reformen im ost- und mitteleuropäischen Raum haben auch das Verhältnis der Länder des Rates für Gegenseitige Wirtschaftshilfe (RGW) zu den Europäischen Gemeinschaften (EG) grundlegend verändert. Vor dem Abschluß der Verträge von Rom hatte die...
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We analyse trade between countries of the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance in Eastern Europe between 1950 and 1990. Despite central planning and political motivation of the CMEA, we show that trade could be explained by standard demand factors surprisingly well. Moreover, we document that...
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I construct a theory of foreign interventions in which the preferences of the foreign country over alternative local groups are determined by each group's international economic ties. In equilibrium, the foreign country supports the group with which it has the strongest ties, since this is most...
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The war in Ukraine has not only dramatically changed Western perceptions of geopolitics, but also influenced risk assess-ments of economic interdependencies between Western economies and China. China has gradually emerged as an important, and in some cases indispensable, supplier to Western...
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This Policy Brief proposes the establishment of an agreement on conformity assessment between the EU and the US that covers machinery and electrical equipment. The initiative aims to increase the number of European and US conformity assessment bodies authorized to test and certify EU and US...
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While foreign policy as well as economic, ideological and purely humanitarian considerations all continue to play a role in economic relations between the CMEA countries and the Third World, a shift in the relative weights of these various aspects has become discernible in recent years. What...
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Die europäischen RGW-Staaten haben seit 1965 in der weltwirtschaftlichen Arbeitsteilung erheblich an Boden verloren. Auf den Märkten der OECD betrugen die Verluste der sechs eurpäischen RGW-Länder (ohne Sowjetunion) in der Zeit von 1965 bis 1987 fast ein Drittel ihrer Marktanteile. Das...
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Der Erfolg der marktorientierten Wirtschaftsreformen in Ungarn, Polen und der Sowjetunion hängt entscheidend davon ab, ob es diesen Ländern gelingt, die wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit mit ihren Nachbarn im Westen zu verstärken. Um die unvermeidliche Anpassungskrise meistern zu können, sind...
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