The paper is intended to explore the prospective direction of structural adjustment in eastern Germany in the light of recent developments. The authors do argue that the Mezzogiorno-picture, a completely de-industrialized region between the Elbe- and the Oder-river, is not convincing. In the...

The paper offers a vision of the future of cross-border activities between Germany and the Central and East European reform countries. It provides a comprehensive theoretical framework and it presents some stylized facts. It focuses on three prominent areas: trade in goods and services,...

Several studies have emphasized the links between trade reorientation and industrial restructuring in transition countries. In these studies trade has usually been considered as transactions among unrelated enterprises in different countries. However, an important and steadily growing share of...

This paper deals with the interactions between outward investments of western multinationals and export performance of their affiliates in transition countries. It argues that multinationals make an important contribution to increasing, diversifying and up-grading trade, because they are able to...

Seit Anfang 1991 arbeiten das Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin, das Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, und das Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle gemeinsam an einem Forschungsprojekt, das sich mit dem wirtschaftlichen Neuaufbau in Ostdeutschland befaßt. Das Projekt...