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1 Working Papers No. 1. (1991) - No (1999) List of publications of previous years (not available electronically) No.106 Csaba Novák: Eastern Europe and East Asia: How Do Efficiency Growth Rates Differ? A View from Eastern Europe. 28 p. (December) No.105 Péter Farkas: The EU's Weakening Economic and Contractual Ties with the ACP Countries And North Africa. 20 p. (December) No.104 András Hernádi: Could a New Consumer Identity Emerge? A Newq Approach to the Theory and Practice of Consumption. 16 p. (December) No.103 Andrea Szalavetz: Technology Transfer, Innovation and Modernization in Hungarian Manufacturing Firms. 18 p. (November) No.102 Éva EHRLICH - Gábor RÉVÉSZ: The State of the Economy in Central and Eastern Europe Compared with the EU's Requirements. 32 p. (August) No.101 András INOTAI: Political, Economic and Social Arguments for and Against EU Enlargement. 20 p. (July) No.100 Nasser M. SULEIMAN - Tamás SZIGETVÁRI: Economic Integration Tendencies in the Middle East and North Africa. 22 p. (June) No.99 Éva EHRLICH: The Communications Infrastructure of the Central and Eastern European Countries. 26 p. (May) 1998 No.98 Tamás SZEMLÉR: The Economic Benefits for Hungary of EU Accession. 20 p. (December) No.97 Péter FARKAS: The Collapse of Russian Industry. 44 p. (December) No.96 Andrea ÉLTETŐ: The Impact of FDI on the Foreign Trade on Four Smaller CEE Countries. 25 p. (December) No.95 Éva EHRLICH: Infrastructure and Services in Hungary in the Light of European Integration. 30 p. (October) 1 For these copies, please contact the Institute by at vki@vki.hu.

2 No.94 Andrea ÉLTETŐ: The Economic Performance of Firms with Foreign Investment in Hungary. 30 p. (July) No.93 Miklós SOMAI: Agricultural Aspects of Hungary's Accession to the European Union. 15 p. (June) No.92 Andrea SZALAVETZ: Company adjustment and restructuring in Hungary. 45 p. (May) No.91 Annamária ARTNER - BASSA Zoltán - András HERNÁDI - Klára MÉSZÁROS: The Far Eastern Region: Moving beyond an Atmosphere of Crisis. 20 p. (April) No.90 Péter FARKAS: Two Centuries of International Capital Flows and the Present Financial Balloon. 22 p. (February) No.89 András HERNÁDI: Society and the Economy in Japan on the Eve of the Third Millennium: Change versus Tradition. 20 p. (February) No.88 Andrea ÉLTETŐ - Magdolna SASS: Motivations and Behaviour by Hungary's Foreign Investors in Relation to Exports. 23 p. (February) 1997 No.87 András INOTAI: (1) What Is Novel about Eastern Enlargement of the European Union? (2) The Costs and Benefits of Eastern Enlargement of the European Union. 25 p. (December) No.86 Judit KISS: The Hungarian Sugar Industry - A Sector Study. 31 p. (December) No.85 Miklós SZANYI: Experiences with Foreign Direct Investment in Eastern Europe: Advantages and Disadvantages. 20 p. (November) No.84 András INOTAI: Correlations between European Integration and Sub-regional Cooperation. Theoretical Background, Experience and Policy Impacts. 71 p. (September) No.83 Judit KISS: Technology and Employment in the Hungarian Food and Drink Industry. 38 p. (September) No.82 Andrea Szalavetz: The Reliability of Hard Indicators for Measuring Restructuring Performance. 22. (August) No.81 Péter Farkas: The Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on Research, Development and Innovation in Hungary. 43 p. (July) No.80 Annamária Artner - András Inotai: Chances of Closing the Development Gap. A Statistical Approach;

3 Andrea Éltető - András Inotai: Some Observations on the Relations between National Budgets and Financial Transfers in the European Union. 27 p. (June) No.79 Miklós Szanyi - Tamás Szemlér: Investment Patterns in Hungary, p. (May) No.78 Andrea SZALAVETZ: Sailing before the Wind of Globalization. Corporate Restructuring in Hungary. 33 p. (April) No.77 Judit KISS: The Political Economy of Hungary's Accession to the European Union. 33 p. (March) No.76 Andrea SZALAVETZ: Keeping the State as a Minority Shareholder. The Case of a Foreign-Owned Company in the Public-Procurement Sector. 30 p. (February) 1996 No.75 Andrea ÉLTETŐ: The Role of the Foreign Trade Balance in the European Union and in the Central and Eastern European Economies. 38 p. (December) No.74 Klára FÓTI: Young People in the Hungarian Labour Market - Similarities and Differences to Some Foreign Experiences. 17 p. (December) No.73 Éva EHRLICH: Present Conditions and Prospects in Central and Eastern Europe. 40 p. (December) No.72 Kálmán DEZSÉRI: Arguments for and against Capital-Account Convertibility. 21 p. (November) No.71 Péter FARKAS: Component Supply, Contract Work and Technical Development. (A Study of Hungarian Companies). 21 p. (October) No.70 András HERNÁDI: Japan's Image of Europe and Strategy Towards It. 17 p. (October) No.69 Andrea SZALAVETZ: Measuring the Restructuring Performance of Firms in the Transition Economies (Problems and Methodology in the Second Phase of Industrial Transformation) 17 p. (September) No.68 Alain HENRIOT - András INOTAI: Economic Interpenetration between the European Union and the Central and Eastern European Countries. 17 p. (September) No.67 Péter FARKAS: Transition from the Socialist to the Capitalist Model. Could It Possibly Be Impossible? 15 p. (June) No.66 Andrea ÉLTETŐ - Tamás SZEMLÉR: Analysis of French-Hungarian Trade Relations. A Gravity-Model Approach. 28 p. (June) No.65 Zoltán BASSA: South Korea on the Threshold of the 21st Century. 24 p. (May)

4 No.64 Andrea SZALAVETZ: Restructuring and Export Performance. The Role of Foreign Partners in the Adaptation Process of Hungarian Companies. 18 p. (May) No.63 Mihály SIMAI: Globalization, Multilateral Cooperation and the Development Process. The UN Agenda and End-of-Century Realities. 43 p. (April) No.62 György CSÁKI - Magdolna SASS - Andrea SZALAVETZ: Reinforcing the Modernization Role of Foreign Direct Investment in Hungary. 37 p. (March) No.61 Svetlana GLINKINA: Unofficial Ways of Expanding the Private Sector in Russia. 22 p. (March) No.60 István KŐRÖSI: The European Union's Influence on the Visegrád Countries and Regional Cooperation. 18 p. (February) No.59 Csaba NOVÁK: Planning for the Future in SE Asia. 22 p. (January) No.58 Andrea SZALAVETZ: Transformation of a State-Owned Enterprise. The Case of Metalworking Giant. 15 p. (January) 1995 No.57 Éva EHRLICH - Gábor RÉVÉSZ: The Economy, Human Resources and Social Stability during the Transition in Hungary. 34 p. (December) No.56 Pál GÁSPÁR: Exchange-rate Policies in Economies in Transition. 23 p. (August) No.55 Margareta STREPETOVA: The Brain Drain in Russia. 25 p. (July) No.54 Pál GÁSPÁR: Exchange-rate Policy in Hungary after p. (July) No.53 Zoltán BASSA - Csaba NOVÁK - Zoltán PÓK: A Snapshot of EU-Far Eastern Economic Links. 25 p. (June) No.52 András INOTAI: From Association Agreements to Full Membership? The Dynamics of Relations between the Central and Eastern European Countries and the European Union. 26 p. (June) No.51 Andrea ÉLTETŐ - Pál GÁSPÁR - Magdolna SASS: Foreign Direct Investment in East-Central-Europe in Comparative Analysis with Spain and Portugal. 33 p. (May) No.50 Judit KISS: The Agricultural Trade of the Central and Eastern European Countries. 25 p. (April) No.49 Andrea ÉLTETŐ: What Spain Would Gain and Lose by Hungary's Entry into the EU. 25 p. (March)

5 No.48 Kálmán DEZSÉRI: Liquidity Crisis - Should It Be Seen As a Necessary Shock or As a Damper on Growth? 25 p. (February) No.47 Zoltán BASSA: Changes in Japan's Balance of Payments in the Last 40 Years: Causes and Comparisons. 19 p. (January) 1994 No.46 Miklós SZANYI: Efforts at Adaptation by Hungarian Industrial Firms during the Transition Crisis. 23 p. (December) No.45 Éva EHRLICH: The Private Sector and Privatization in the Visegrád Countries. 24 p. (December) No.44 Miklós SZANYI: The Economic Aspects of Transformation on the Hungarian Telecommunications Market. 26 p. (December) No.43 An Economic Strategy for Hungary Based on Development of the Infrastructure and Services. 30 p. (November) No.42 Miklós SZANYI: A Transitional Assessment. 24 p. (November) No.41 András HERNÁDI: Development versus Growth - Japan's Move from Quantity towards Quality. 18 p. (November) No.40 György CSÁKI: : New Improvement in the Hungarian Banking System. 46 p. (October) No.39 Tamás FLEISCHER: Considerations on Advantages and Drawbacks of an Infrastructure-oriented Development Strategy. 31 p. (September) No.38 Yuri MONICH: The Role of Eastern Central Europe in Russian Foreign Policy and Trade in the 1990s. 18 p. (August) No.37 Károly KISS: A Programme of Sustainable Development for Hungary. 25 p. (August) No.36 András INOTAI: Some Remarks on Developments in Foreign Trade in Central and Eastern European Economies. 22 p. (July) No.35 Alenka KAJZER: The Real-Wage/Employment Relationship and Unemployment in Transitional Economies: the Case of Slovenia and Hungary. 31 p. (July) No.34 Judit KISS: Privatization and Foreign Capital in the Hungarian Food Industry. 20 p. (June) No.33 András INOTAI - Magdolna SASS: Economic Integration of the Visegrád Countries: Facts and Scenarios. 31 p. (May)

6 No.32 Miklós SZANYI: Experiences with Foreign Direct Investment in Hungary. 27 p. (April) No.31 Ferenc VISSI: Foreign Direct Investment and Competition. 20 p. (April) No.30 Ádám TÖRÖK: Industrial Policy and Foreign Direct Investment in Hungary. 33 p. (March) No.29 Judit KISS: Who Pays the Piper? Financial Resource Mobilization for Transformation and Development. 26 p. (February) No.28 Dimitri MARKOV: Russian-Hungarian Economic Relations: the Problems and Prospects. 21 p. (January) 1993 No.27 György CSÁKI: Recent Improvements in Hungarian Banking. 40 p. (December) No.26 Miklós SOMAI: The Car Industry and Motorization in Hungary. 38 p. (October) No.25 András INOTAI: Western Economic Support for Central and Eastern Europe: a Hungarian View. 34 p. (September) No.24 Klára FÓTI: Rising Unemployment in Hungary: Causes and Remedies. 24 p. (August) No.23 Judit KISS: Hungarian Agricultural Strategy towards the EC and the CAP. 31 p. (August) No.22 Kálmán DEZSÉRI: First Practical Steps in Introducing Convertibility in the Eastern European Countries. 37 p. (August) No.21 Pál GÁSPÁR: The Fiscal Consequences of the Economic Transition in the Eastern European Economies. 31 p. (July) No.20 Kálmán DEZSÉRI: A Proposed Approach for Introducing Currency Convertibility in Eastern Europe: a Multi-Phase Exchange Rate Policy during the Transition Period. 28 p. (July) No.19 Pál GÁSPÁR: Interest Rate Policy in Hungary. 37 p. (June) No.18 Károly KISS: Western Prescriptions for Eastern Transition. A Comparative Analysis of the Different Economic Schools and Issues. 26 p. (June) No.17 Éva EHRLICH: Shifts in the Size Structure of Manufacturing Establishments and Firms: an International Comparison. 18 p. (May) No.16 András INOTAI: The Economic Impacts of the Association Agreement: the Case of Hungary. 37 p. (April)

7 No.15 Judit KISS: Debt Management in Eastern Europe. 30 p. (March) No.14 Volodimir S. SIDENKO: The Emergence of New Finance and Banking Systems in the Soviet Successor States and the Problems of Financial Cooperation between Them. 24 p. (February) No.13 Károly KISS: The Demise of the Soviet Union - Was It Necessary? (An Appraisal of the Gorbachev Era). 29 p. (January) 1992 No.12 Leonid VARDOMSKY: Free Economic Zones in the CIS: Dream or Opportunity? 27 p. (December) No.11 Miklós SZANYI: What Happened to the Transition in Hungary? An Approach from the Management Side. 34 p. (November) No.10 Éva EHRLICH: Japan and Struggling East-Central Europe. 26 p. (November) No.9 Pál GÁSPÁR - Magdolna SASS: Trade Relations between Hungary and Selected NICs in the 1980s. 38 p. (August) No.8 András HERNÁDI: The Main Elements of Japanese Development: Lessons for Hungary. 23 p. (July) No.7 Éva EHRLICH: Economic Growth in Eastern Central Europe after World War II. 45 p. (June) No.6 Judit KISS: Joining the EC - Implications for the Hungarian Agriculture. 24 p. (April) No.5 István DOBOZI: State Enterprises, Supply Behavior and Market Volatility: an Empirical Analysis of the World Copper Industry. 32 p. (January) No.4 Miklós SZANYI: Patterns of Technological Competition - Analysis of the U.S. Manufacturing Industry. 33 p. (January) No.3 György CSÁKI: East-West Corporate Joint Ventures: Promises and Disappointments. 41 p. (January) 1991 No.2 Károly KISS - Volodimir R. SIDENKO: Ukraine on the Way towards Economic Stabilization and Independence. 33 p. (December) No.1 András INOTAI - Mihály PATAI: Hungarian Debt Management Strategy for the Nineties. 27 p. (July)

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