East-West economic relations in the changing global environment : proceedings of a conference held by the International Economic Association in Budapest, Hungary, and Vienna, Austria

To all we express our very sincere thanks. ## Programme Committee B. Csik6s-Nagy (Chairman) F. Levcik (Co-chairman) ix Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Recent Developments and Some Issues in East-West Economic Relations....Pages 3-8 Changing Position of Europe in the World Economy and East-West Economic Relations....Pages 9-24 Deterioration of the Global Environment and East-West Economic Relations....Pages 25-40 The Global Framework and East-West Economic Relations....Pages 41-58 Political and Economic Influences on East-West Economic Relations....Pages 59-83 Front Matter....Pages 95-95 Legal and Institutional Framework of East-West Economic Relations....Pages 97-103 The Impact of the ‘Polish Crisis’ on East-West Trade....Pages 104-113 Front Matter....Pages 129-129 Soviet Energy Supplies as a Factor in East-West Relations....Pages 131-143 Austria’s Trade with the East....Pages 144-180 US East-West Trade Policy, Focusing on Recent Legal Developments....Pages 181-195 Hungary’s Experiences in GATT....Pages 196-204 Front Matter....Pages 221-221 Transfer of Technology in East-West Economic Relations....Pages 223-231 East-West Relations in Technology Transfer in the 1980s....Pages 232-259 Trends in Direct Investment and the Transfer of Technology....Pages 260-275 Front Matter....Pages 285-285 Relations between Western Capital Markets and the CMEA Six....Pages 287-297 Eastern European Countries and the IMF....Pages 298-311 Some Aspects of East-West Financial Cooperation....Pages 312-320 The Impact of Debt Problems on East-West Economic Relations: an Additional Proposal for the Solution of International Debt Problems....Pages 321-334 Front Matter....Pages 351-351 East-West Trade and Market-Conforming Behaviour: A Case Study of Hungary....Pages 353-361 Systems’ Adjustments to East-West Economic Cooperation....Pages 362-381 Front Matter....Pages 351-351 Comparative Advantage and Competitiveness in East-West Relations....Pages 382-404 Criteria for a Political Cost-Benefit Approach Towards East-West Economic Relations....Pages 405-410 Back Matter....Pages 423-429