Study is focused on mutual relations between FDI and foreign trade in economies going through systemic transformation after 1989. Its aim is to indicate: (1) how big were the streams of FDI inflows and outflows; (2) what were the institutional arrangements for liberalization of FDI and trade; (3)...

A new method for measuring trade potential from border effects is developed and applied to manufactured trade between the old 15 European Union (EU) members and 12 Central and East European (CEE) economies. Border effects are estimated with a theoretically compatible trade specification and much...