Trade in intermediate goods as one possible link between rising trade and foreign direct investment is examined. To … explain growing intermediate goods trade, three hypotheses are brought forward: outsourcing, global sourcing and the … reason of growing trade in intermediate goods in the cross-section and the time-series framework. The evidence for …

I use data from the World Input-Output Database and show that trade in information technologies (IT) has a significant … of IT and has strongly contributed to the rise in trade in IT. The growth in IT imports from China is associated with … from the fall in IT prices can be attributed to the trade with China. …

I use data from the World Input-Output Database and show that trade in information technologies (IT) has a significant … trade in IT and has become one of the major foreign suppliers of IT. I merge these data with the EU KLEMS database and EU … be attributed to the trade with China. …