Most transitional economies in Central and Eastern Europe have rather surprisingly resisted protectionist pressures - at least during early stages of reform - and adopted liberal trade policies. In this paper the course of trade policy during transition is explained from a political economy...

Real Exchange Rates, Structural Reforms and Monetary Union The paper addresses the question what effects the enlargement of a monetary union will have on necessary structural reforms in member countries with high and low degrees of distortions. I show that monetary union has asymmetric effects...