TY  - GEN
T1  - Satellites and commissars : strategy and conflict in the politics of Soviet-Bloc trade
T2  - Princeton studies in international history and politics.
A1  - Stone, Randall W., 1966-
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 1996
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1237368080
AB  - Why did the Soviet Union squander the political leverage afforded by its trade subsidy to Eastern Europe? Why did Soviet officials fail to bargain with resolve, to link subsidies to salient political issues, to make credible commitments, and to monitor the satellites' policies? Using an unprecedented array of formerly secret documents housed in archives in Moscow, Warsaw, and Prague, as well as interviews with former Communist officials across Eastern Europe, Randall Stone answers these questions and others that have long vexed Western political scientists. Stone argues that trade politics revolved around the incentives created by distorted prices. The East European satellites profited by trading on the margin between prices on the Western market and those in the Soviet bloc. The Soviet Union made numerous attempts to reduce its implicit trade subsidy and increase the efficiency of the bloc, but the satellites managed consistently to outmaneuver Soviet negotiators. Stone demonstrates how the East Europeans artfully resisted Soviet objectives. Stone draws upon recent developments in bargaining and principal-agent theory, arguing that the incentives created by domestic institutions weakened Soviet bargaining strategies. In effect, he suggests, perverse incentive structures in the Soviet economy were exported into Soviet foreign policy. Furthermore, Stone argues, incentives to smother information were so deeply entrenched that they frustrated numerous attempts to reform Soviet institutions.
OP  - 283
CN  - HF1421 .S76 1996eb
SN  - 9780691225135
SN  - 0691225133
SN  - 0691044147
SN  - 9780691044149
SN  - 0691095981
SN  - 9780691095981
KW  - Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava
KW  - Trade adjustment assistance : Soviet Union.
KW  - Europe, Eastern : Foreign economic relations : Soviet Union.
KW  - Europe, Eastern : Foreign relations : Soviet Union.
KW  - Aide à l'ajustement de la commercialisation : URSS.
KW  - Europe de l'Est : Relations économiques extérieures : URSS.
KW  - Europe de l'Est : Relations extérieures : URSS.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Political Ideologies : Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism.
KW  - International economic relations
KW  - Diplomatic relations
KW  - Trade adjustment assistance
KW  - Eastern Europe
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Außenhandelspolitik
KW  - Außenwirtschaftspolitik
KW  - Geschichte
KW  - Ostblock
KW  - Außenpolitik
KW  - Osteuropa
KW  - Sowjetunion
KW  - Handel.
KW  - Subsidies.
KW  - Politieke aspecten.
KW  - Sovjet-Unie.
KW  - Oost-Europa.
KW  - URSS : Relations economiques exterieures : Hongrie : 1945- ...
KW  - Europe de l'Est : Politique economique : 1945-1989.
KW  - Europe de l'Est : Politique economique : 1989- ...
KW  - URSS : Relations economiques exterieures : Tchecoslovaquie : 1945- ...
KW  - Pologne : Relations economiques exterieures : URSS : 1945- ...
KW  - Hongrie : Relations economiques exterieures : URSS : 1945- ...
KW  - Tchecoslovaquie : Relations economiques exterieures : URSS : 1945- ...
KW  - URSS : Relations economiques exterieures : Pologne : 1945- ...
KW  - relations internationales : Europe orientale : URSS.
KW  - relations economiques internationales : Europe orientale : URSS.
KW  - Accountability.
KW  - Accounting.
KW  - Adverse selection.
KW  - Adviser.
KW  - Balance of trade.
KW  - Bargaining power.
KW  - Behalf.
KW  - Bilateral trade.
KW  - Capitalism.
KW  - Case study.
KW  - Central Committee.
KW  - Chairman.
KW  - Comecon.
KW  - Commodity.
KW  - Consideration.
KW  - Construction.
KW  - Consumer Goods.
KW  - Credibility.
KW  - Currency.
KW  - Czechoslovakia.
KW  - Debt.
KW  - East Germany.
KW  - Eastern Bloc.
KW  - Eastern Europe.
KW  - Economic development.
KW  - Economic integration.
KW  - Economic planning.
KW  - Economic policy.
KW  - Economics.
KW  - Economist.
KW  - Economy of Poland.
KW  - Economy of the Soviet Union.
KW  - Economy.
KW  - Employment.
KW  - Exchange rate.
KW  - Export.
KW  - Foreign direct investment.
KW  - Foreign policy.
KW  - Gosplan.
KW  - Government budget.
KW  - Grand strategy.
KW  - Hard currency.
KW  - Ideology.
KW  - Implementation.
KW  - Incentive.
KW  - Information asymmetry.
KW  - Institution.
KW  - International Monetary Fund.
KW  - International relations.
KW  - Investment.
KW  - Iron ore.
KW  - Joint venture.
KW  - Liberalization.
KW  - Market price.
KW  - Mikhail Gorbachev.
KW  - Multilateralism.
KW  - Negotiation.
KW  - Nikolai Baibakov.
KW  - Obstacle.
KW  - Payment.
KW  - Perestroika.
KW  - Perverse incentive.
KW  - Planned economy.
KW  - Planning Commission (India).
KW  - Planning.
KW  - Policy.
KW  - Politburo.
KW  - Politics.
KW  - Position paper.
KW  - Pricing.
KW  - Principal-agent problem.
KW  - Proclamation.
KW  - Productive capacity.
KW  - Quality control.
KW  - Quantity.
KW  - Raw material.
KW  - Receipt.
KW  - Regulation.
KW  - Requirement.
KW  - Research and development.
KW  - Ruble.
KW  - Scarcity.
KW  - Second World.
KW  - Shortage.
KW  - Socialist economics.
KW  - Socialist state.
KW  - Soviet Union.
KW  - Strategy.
KW  - Subsidy.
KW  - Supply (economics).
KW  - Supply and demand.
KW  - Tax.
KW  - Technical progress (economics).
KW  - Technology.
KW  - Trade-off.
KW  - Treaty.
KW  - Uncertainty.
KW  - Wojciech Jaruzelski.
KW  - Working group.
KW  - World economy.
ER  -