Issue Information

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12449
• Published date: 01 January 2017
• Date: 01 January 2017

Foreign Acquisitions and Target FirmsÊ Performance in China

................................... QING LIU, RUOSI LU and LARRY D. QIU 2 ă 20

Fiscal Rules and Twin Deficits: The Link between Fiscal and External

Balances ........................................................... HARALD BADINGER,

AURÉLIEN FICHET DE CLAIRFONTAINE

and WOLF HEINRICH REUTER 21 ă 35

Simulating World Trade in the Decades Ahead: Driving Forces and

Policy Implications .................... LIONEL FONTAGNÉ, JEAN FOURÉ

and ALEXANDER KECK 36 ă 55

Boom-and-bust Cycles, External Imbalances and the Real Exchange

Rate .................................... NIKOLAS A. MÜLLER-PLANTENBERG 56 ă 87

Does Trade Liberalisation Trigger Tax Competition? Theory and

Evidence from OECD Countries ........................... NELLY EXBRAYAT 88 ă 115

Labour Migration and Economic Growth in East and

South-East Asia ............. TERRIE WALMSLEY, ANGEL AGUIAR and

SYUD AMER AHMED 116 ă 139

Merchanting and Current Account Balances ...... ELISABETH BEUSCH,

BARBARA DÖBELI, ANDREAS M. FISCHER and PINAR YES•IN 140 ă 167

Trading with Conditions: The Effect of Sanitary and Phytosanitary

Measures on the Agricultural Exports from Low-income Countries

...........................MARINA MURINA and ALESSANDRO NICITA 168 ă 181

Two-Way Migration between Similar Countries

...................................UDO KREICKEMEIER and JENS WRONA 182 ă 206

Export Quality and the Dynamics of NorthăSouth Competition

.......................................JORGE CHAMI BATISTA and YAN LIU 207 ă 232

Commentary ................................................. JORGE CHAMI BATISTA 233 ă 236

Corrigendum 237 ă 237

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