Eastern Europe's international trade

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Eastern Europe's international trade

L. Alan Winters and Zhen Kun Wang

Manchester University Press , distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1994

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Bibliography: p. [181]-186

Includes index

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This book explores the questions raised by the liberalization of Eastern Europe. It provides a model of world trade to assess the potential for Eastern Europe's trade growth, which it shows to be very substantial. It looks at EC trade policy in a number of industries and examines the agreements currently in force between the EC and Eastern Europe. These are shown not to go far enough towards liberalizing trade. It then looks at Eastern Europe's comparative advantage by examining the development of human capital which it shows to be higher in parts of Eastern Europe than income levels would suggest, and also by examination of one industry in detail. It shows how parts of the Polish clothing sector are adapting to new opportunities and examines their capacity for further export growth.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Introduction and summary: background
  • the volume and direction of trade
  • the Europe agreements
  • the composition of exports
  • conclusion. Part 2 Eastern Europe's potential trade: the gravity model - the implications of the gravity model, the theory of the gravity model
  • the data
  • the application of the gravity model - the estimates, East European trade, alternative estimates, the implications for the west. Part 3 The Europe agreements - with a little help from our friends: title III - free movement of goods - coverage, antidumping and safeguard, rules of orign, CEEC liberalization, the implications
  • title IV - workers, establishment and services
  • TITLE V - payments, competition and the approximation of laws
  • TITLE VI - economic co-operation
  • TITLE VIII - financial co-operation. Part 4 Quantifying the effects of the Europe agreements - three case studies: the simulation model - markets and suppliers, the model, calibration, simulating trade liberalization
  • iron and steel - EC trade policy on iron and steel, the model, liberalizing imports from Eastern Europe, changing demand, a steel cartel
  • clothing - EC trade policy on clothing, modelling trade policy, liberalization
  • footwear - the structure of the model, the data, liberalizing imports from the CEECs. Part 5 Eastern Europe's comparative advantage - the role of human capital: the stock of human capital
  • Eastern European schooling - the Hungarian and Polish education systems, school science scores and skill levels, comparative advantage, Hungary and Poland
  • secondary education and economic development. Part 6 Export potential - a case-study of clothing: the survey
  • production - the pattern of production, employment and production conditions, financial standing, cost structure and productivity
  • export performance - the export share in 1989, the growth of exports, successful exporters, trade barriers. Part 7 Appendices: the gravity model and China
  • the elasticity of demand.

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