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100 1 _aHanzl-Weiss, Doris
245 1 0 _aEastern Europe before Transition: Exploring historical trade data on external economic relations in CESEE’s command economies
260 _aWien :
_bWiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (wiiw),
_c2024.
300 _a26 S.,
_b2 Tables and 9 Figure,
_c30cm.
490 1 _awiiw Working Papers
_v256
520 _aThis 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/
650 _aCommand economies
650 _aCentral
650 _aEast and Southeast Europe
650 _ainternational trade
650 _aCMEA
650 _aCOMECON
650 _aeconomic history
650 _ahistorical statistics
651 _aAustria
651 _aBulgaria
651 _aCentral, East and Southeast Europe
651 _aCMEA/COMECON - Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
651 _aCSSR - Czechoslovakia
651 _aGDR – German Democratic Republic
651 _aHungary
651 _aPoland
651 _aRomania
651 _aUSSR - Soviet Union
651 _aYugoslavia
651 _aDeveloping countries
651 _aNon-socialist countries
651 _aSocialist countries
651 _aWestern industrial countries
690 _aInternational Trade, Competitiveness and FDI
830 0 _v256
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_twiiw Working Papers
856 4 0 _uhttps://wiiw.ac.at/p-7078.html
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