CESifo Forum 3/2005 (Autumn)

Focus: China - The new global player: The Chinese economy: How much market – how much state? (Markus Taube); Embracing the dragon: Can the EU and China be friends? (Katinka Barysch, with Charles Grant and Mark Leonhard); On the renminbi (Jeffrey Frankel); Whose afraid of a renminbi float? (David Altig); Is revaluation of the renminbi good news? (Vanessa Rossi); The Chinese challenge to the EU (Gabriele Roubal, H.-Günther Vieweg, Markus Taube); The giant graduates: China’s strive for high-technology (Sonja Opper); China’s growing importance for German investment (Rainer Frey); Pro & Contra: Proposals for a tax reform in Germany: In favour of a flat tax (Paul Kirchhof); For a dual income tax (Wolfgang Wiegard); Special: Fiscal policy and fiscal rules in the European Union (Vito Tanzi); Spotlights: Elasticity asymmetry in the United States; Norway and the EU – It is expensive to be a non-member; Trends: Statistics update