The Challenge of Simultaneous Economic Relations with East and West

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Hard Currency Settlement of Payments or Bilateralism and Clearing: How Long will the Dilemma Remain?....Pages 5-22
Hungarian Foreign Trade: Failure to Reform....Pages 23-57
Perestroika in the Soviet Union: The Domestic and International Dimensions....Pages 58-63
A new situation in Hungarian—Soviet trade: what is to be done?....Pages 64-79
Economic Policy and Foreign Trade in Austria: Relations with West and East....Pages 80-108
Internal Regulation of Foreign Trade with respect to Socialist Trading Partners: A Comparison of the Finnish and the Hungarian System....Pages 109-125
Effects of Trade with Centrally Planned Economies on Exchange Rates and Prices in Market Economies....Pages 126-139
An Appearance of Dual Attachment in the Soviet Union’s Imports: Variations in Imports from the West in relation to Imports from CMEA Countries....Pages 140-156
Dual Systems of International Settlements: an analysis of Yugoslavia’s experience and some proposals for more efficient alternative settlement systems....Pages 157-173
Some Specific Features of Inflation in a Heavily-indebted Socialist Country....Pages 174-191
The Foreign Policy Conditions affecting Economic Relations between the Smaller European States....Pages 192-193
Problems and Prospects of East-West Transfer of Technology....Pages 194-194
Towards a Comprehensive Economic Reform? A Pessi-Optimistic View....Pages 195-196
Reflections on Enterprise-level Currency Conversion in Foreign Trade: The Case of Hungary....Pages 197-199
Joint Ventures between East and West....Pages 200-201
The Involvement of the CMEA Countries in the International Trade in Services: Can They be Competitive?....Pages 202-203
Money as a Means of Communication and Reforms in Eastern Europe: Some Propositions....Pages 204-206
Summary Remarks....Pages 207-210
Back Matter....Pages 211-216