CII Introduction: last month’s Mumbai terrorist attacks were a reminder that the international terrorist threat remains real and varied. While the security services work to prevent further atrocities, the corporate world and the insurance industry can also help by demonstrating that business...

Die vielbeachtete Dynamik des wirtschaftlichen Wandels im ostasiatischen Raum stellt für die dortigen Länder nicht nur den erfreulichen Weg zum Wohlstand dar, sondern ist gerade durch die erreichte Geschwindigkeit eine immense Herausforderung an Flexibilität and Anpassungsfähigkeit der...

The report summarizes the main results of the SME research that has been conducted in the framework of the “Sino-German Cooperation Program in Empirical Economic Research”, with the ifo Institute, Germany as the core unit to provide methodological support. The program focused on business cycle...

Der vorliegende Beitrag trägt zentrale statistische Daten zur Entwicklung der europä-isch-chinesischen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen zwischen 1976 und 2001 zusammen. Die graphisch aufgearbeiteten Daten werden einführend kommentiert und sollen einen schnellen, leicht zugänglichen Einblick in...

Aspiring to become a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) the Vietnamesegovernment is confronted with tremendous political, economic and institutionalchallenges. Issues to be addressed are not only technical questions such as the tariffregime, industrial and agricultural subsidies,...

Bei dem Text handelt es sich um die überarbeitete deutsche Fassung des Beitrags für die vom Berkeley Roundtable onthe International Economy (BRIE) gemeinsam mit dem Kreisky Forum für Internationalen Dialog veranstaltete Tagung„Will there be a unified European Economy? Industrial Production...

This paper sheds light on the influence of exchange rate volatility on foreign direct investment (FDI), both at the theoretical and the empirical level. The novelty of the empirical analysis, which is based on a panel of 27 OECD countries over the period 1982-2002, is to provide evidence of a...

Ever since the time of Adam Smith, the attribution to foreign trade of the abilityto affect the wholesale transformation of the productive powers of an economy hasremained a very powerful concept in both economics and economic history. At theheart of this interpretation is the observation that...

One of the most contentious issues in Chinese history has been the assessment of foreign involvement in the Chinese economy since the end of the nineteenth century. Following Allen and Donnithorne's 1954 publication Western Enterprise in Far Eastern Economic Development which claimed the limited...

Under the international economic order which prevailed between the end of mercantilism and decolonisation (referred to in this essay as liberal imperialism) the costs of transacting, transporting and trading commodities, both within and across national and imperial frontiers declined sharply.1...