In cooperation with The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw).

Description

On the occasion of the project finalisation 'Eastern Europe Before Transition: Digitisation of data and analysis of CESEE’s command economies', we hereby invite you to the presentation of the results.

Programme

09:00 - 09:15    Welcome & Introduction
Mario Holzner (wiiw) and Philipp Ther (RECET)

09:15 – 10:45    SESSION 1

• Technical report on the digitisation of economic data of CESEE’s command economies
  Artem Kochnev (wiiw)
• Labour market, living standards and wellbeing in Eastern Europe Before Transition
  Vasily Astrov, Branimir Jovanovic (wiiw)

10:45 - 11:15    Coffee break

11:15 – 12:45    SESSION 2

• Production, productivity, investment and prices in Eastern Europe Before Transition
  Artem Kochnev, Doris Hanzl-Weiss, Robert Stehrer (wiiw)
• Revisiting external economic relations in CESEE's command economies: Exploring trade, current account, debt and foreign exchange data
  Doris Hanzl-Weiss, Artem Kochnev, Robert Stehrer (wiiw)

12:45 – 13:45    Buffet luncheon

13:45 – 15:15    SESSION 3

• The economic policy framework of CESEE’s planned economies before, during and after the transition crisis
  Richard Grieveson, Mario Holzner, Branimir Jovanovic (wiiw)
• How the Enlarged Europe lost the Competition against East Asian State Capitalism: Global Business and Labor History of Shipbuilding Since the Late 1970s
  Philipp Ther (RECET)

15:15 – 15:45    Coffee break

15:45 – 17:15    SESSION 4

• Beyond the planned economy? The Polonia Firms in late state-socialist Poland
  Martin Gumiela (RECET)
• Drying COMECON markets - the struggle of the VEB Werk für Fernsehelektronik (GDR, 1989-1993)
  Dominik Stegmayer (RECET)

18:00                 Dinner (Venue to be announced)

This event takes place in the framework of the project ‘Eastern Europe Before Transition: Digitisation of data and analysis of CESEE’s command economies’ which is financed by the Anniversary Fund of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Project No. 18666). Support provided by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank for this research is gratefully acknowledged.