Contents

pp v-vii

List of figures and tables

pp viii-xii

Preface

pp xiii-xiv

List of conference participants

pp xv-xv

List of acronyms

pp xvi-xvi

1 - Introduction

pp 1-20

I - Trade relations

pp 21-22

2 - An economic assessment of the integration of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland into the European Union

pp 23-60

Comments

pp 61-66

3 - Potential trade with core and periphery: industry differences in trade patterns

pp 67-96

Comments

pp 97-99

4 - Impact on German trade of increased division of labor with Eastern Europe

pp 100-156

Comments

pp 157-164

II - Investment patterns

pp 165-166

5 - Investment and its financing during the transition in Central and Eastern Europe

pp 167-200

Comments

pp 201-211

6 - Privatization, structural change, and productivity; toward convergence in Europe?

pp 212-257

Comments

pp 258-266

III - Labor market issues

pp 267-268

7 - Integrating the East: the labor market effects of immigration

pp 269-306

Comments

pp 307-312

IV - The process of integration

pp 313-314

8 - Joining the club: options for integrating Central and Eastern European Countries into the European Union

pp 315-341

Comments

pp 342-350

Index

pp 351-363