Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/154820 
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Year of Publication: 
1997
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 57.1997
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
One of the most important consequences of the transition in Central and Eastern Europe has been the dismantling of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA). It is argued in this paper that the abrupt loss of trading partners for the former CMEA countries and the Newly Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union is responsible for the ensuing contraction of output and the emergence of unemployment. A model in which trade is conducted in vertically differentiated products is constructed with the implication that the dismantling of "clearing trade" arrangements among CMEA countries may make unemployment more than just a short-run phenomenon.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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