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...

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,...

When adjustment costs are present, cyclical preference and technology heterogeneities in aproduct’s markets induce cycles in production. We exploit cyclic and dihedral groupinvariances in an industry’s cost technology to describe these patterns. We show whenequilibrium cyclical pricing and...

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...

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...