TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hanzl-Weiss,Doris
TI  - Eastern Europe before Transition: Exploring historical trade data on external economic relations in CESEE’s command economies
T2  - wiiw Working Papers
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Wien
PB  - Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (wiiw)
KW  - Command economies
KW  - Central
KW  - East and Southeast Europe
KW  - international trade
KW  - CMEA
KW  - COMECON
KW  - economic history
KW  - historical statistics
KW  - Austria
KW  - Bulgaria
KW  - Central, East and Southeast Europe
KW  - CMEA/COMECON - Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
KW  - CSSR - Czechoslovakia
KW  - GDR – German Democratic Republic
KW  - Hungary
KW  - Poland
KW  - Romania
KW  - USSR - Soviet Union
KW  - Yugoslavia
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Non-socialist countries
KW  - Socialist countries
KW  - Western industrial countries
N2  - This paper revisits the external economic relations in the former command economies of Central, East and Southeast Europe (CESEE) by exploring historical trade data. It provides a descriptive analysis of foreign trade statistics, drawing on the newly introduced wiiw COMECON Dataset, which contains economic time series of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA or COMECON) countries from 1945 to 1994. While trade with the West was limited, the majority of trade took place among the CMEA members states, with the Soviet Union (USSR) serving as the most important partner. The USSR supplied energy and raw materials to its partners in exchange for manufactured products and other goods. However, when examining historical data from CESEE’s command economies, it is important to consider the limitations of data and distinctive features of this economic system.

wiiw COMECON Dataset:

https://comecon.wiiw.ac.at

UR  - https://wiiw.ac.at/p-7078.html
ER  -