Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/204047 
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Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
wiiw Research Report No. 274
Publisher: 
The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw), Vienna
Abstract: 
Trade in services, although often neglected by theory and empiricism, plays a quite influential role in the balance of payments of most countries. In the case of the CEE countries, services trade also enters another dimension it is a helpful means in the modernization process of the CEE economies whose (producer) services, as of 1989, were far from the development level typical of well-functioning market economies. The first part of the present paper gives a theoretical and empirical overview of the services trade in eight CEECs, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. The second part of the paper focuses on the services trade of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland with the EU in general and Austria in particular, thus also allowing for an examination of the advantages and disadvantages Austria has vis-à-vis the EU in trading services with the CEECs.
Subjects: 
Central and East European countries
foreign trade
trade in services
balances of payments
JEL: 
F14
F15
P52
Document Type: 
Research Report

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