This second yearbook of The Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies presents studies dealing with the economic situation in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Its foreign trade analysis offers insights into the ongoing transition process from centrally planned to market-oriented systems.
Preface -- Introduction -- Reforms, Trade, and Trade Policy -- Soviet
Perestroika and Foreign Trade -- Bulgaria: Economic Reforms and GATT
Continuing Questions -- Czechoslovakias Foreign Trade -- Hungarys West
Trade Policy -- CMEA Integration: Stagnation or a New Beginning? -- Trade
with the Soviet Union -- Four Small Countries' Relations with the Soviet
Union -- The Mechanism of Hungarian-Soviet Economic Relations -- Mechanism
and Institutional System of the Finnish-Soviet Economic Relations --
Finnish-Soviet Economic Relations -- The Role of Technology -- Information
Technologies and Their Impact on East-West Relations -- Export Control Reform
and Western Security -- A Note on Austrias Policies on Trade and Technology
Transfer to the CMEA Countries -- Austrias and Other Western Countries
Performance in High Technology Exports to the East1 -- Foreign Debt -- Hard
Currency Position of the CMEA Countries and Yugoslavia1 -- Polands Debt
Situation -- Solving the Polish Debt Problem -- Yugoslavias Relations with
International Financing Organizations
FriedlAnder, Michael