instead that a company may use its international value chain (customers, suppliers and competitors) to utilize foreign sources … for innovation at home. We suggest a combination of three factors to identify and explain such innovation strategies … customers as a source for innovation that is more beneficial to standardized products and becomes more feasible if the lead …

We use consumer panel data to calculate the damage suffered by German consumers due to a detergent cartel that was …

This paper analyzes diversification benefits from international securitized real estate in a mixed-asset context. We … account for foreign exchange risk exposure. From the perspective of a US investor, it is shown that first, international … diversification is superior to a US mixed-asset portfolio, second, adding international real estate to an already internationally …

, and international stocks. Overall, our results suggest that there are significant improvements in international portfolio … but we also show that international portfolios augmented by FX investment styles are superior in terms of second and third … portfolio augmented by FX investment styles compared to the benchmark. -- International Diversification ; Foreign Exchange …

In international politics, intergovernmental treaties provide the rules of the game. Similar to private law, treaty … measurement of flexibility in international treaties. Based on 400 treaties and supplementary agreements from the field of … international environmental law, we provide new insights into the combined application of rules for adoption and entry into force of …

innovations. So far, the lead market concept in innovation economics has only been applied to innovations in general. We extend …-efficient passenger cars and wind energy. In both cases, one country adopted the innovation first. Later, other countries followed the … same innovation design favoured by the lead market. The lead market became a large exporter in the wind generation and car …