Revenue enhancement and value creation are core issues of mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Revenue enhancing synergy associated with cross-industry M&A is supported by Asian emerging markets. Both within-industry M&A and cross-industry M&A deals realise significant positive abnormal returns. The...

Over the past few decades, manufacturing production has shifted from the higher to the lower income economies in east Asia. This article uses input-output analysis to explore how total value added in manufacturing has shifted around the region. It finds that for most economies, the domestic...

From the perspective of the intertemporal balance model, we investigate how capital mobility affects the current account for six developing countries from the mid-1970s to the end of 1999. We find that after 1989, when capital liberalisation became prevalent, the causal relationship from the...

The paper discusses the impacts of free-trade policy on the agricultural exports of Kerala.

In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...