Daten zur Produktionsstruktur der Welt, die aus Input-Output-Tabellen entnommen werden, zeigen, dass der ausländische Wertschöpfungsanteil, der in deutschen Exporten steckt, zwischen 1995 und 2008 von 13,5 auf 20% gestiegen ist. Somit ist für Deutschland der langfristige Trend zur...

Structural change involves a broad set of trends: (i) sectoral reallocations, (ii) rich movements of productive activities between home and market, and (iii) an increase in the scale of productive units. After extending these facts, we develop a model to explain them within a unified framework....

This paper analyzes rules for international factor movements, i.e. real capital flows together with the relocation of firms, the flow of technology and the migration of people. These rules have to make sure that individuals, individual countries as well as the world economy benefit from factor...

How does growing international financial diversification affect firm-level and aggregate labor shares? We study this question using a novel framework of firm labor choice in the face of aggregate risk. The theory implies a cross-section of labor risk premia and labor shares that appear as...