Strobel, Thomas - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2013
by the diversity of final goods, but also by the variety of intermediate inputs. Thereby the importance of inputs is not … only demonstrated by its large shares in gross output, but also as intermediate inputs constitute important parts of higher … value products on later stages of assembly. At that, intermediate inputs encapsulate innovation efforts of upstream sectors …