Rigorous analysis of the previously centrally planned economies (PCPEs) is one of the most important but at the same time difficult tasks currently facing macroeconomists. We develop applied techniques appropriate to situations typically faced by Western analysts of PCPEs, as well as by...

This paper examines changes since the early 1960s in the export shares of the United States and its major competitors in the markets of the developing countries of the Asian Pacific Rim (APR), defined to include Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia,...