The US-China trade war forced a reluctant semiconductor industry into someone else’s fight, a very different position from its leading role in the 1980s trade conflict with Japan. This paper describes how the political economy of the global semiconductor industry has evolved since the 1980s....

The US-China trade war forced a reluctant semiconductor industry into someone else’s fight, a very different position from its leading role in the 1980s trade conflict with Japan. This paper describes how the political economy of the global semiconductor industry has evolved since the 1980s....

Deutschland ist wie kein anderes Land auf den Export von Spitzenprodukten angewiesen, um Wohlstand und Beschäftigung zu sichern. Die Freihandelspolitik steht jedoch erheblich unter Druck. Autoritäre Regime wie China setzen ihre staatsgelenkten Wirtschaftssysteme dazu ein, geopolitische Ziele...

Purpose - According to the conventional wisdom, trade is not a zero-sum game, but a positive-sum game. By allowing countries to focus on producing the goods that they can produce relatively efficiently, free trade is largely beneficial for everyone involved. Then, why are the world’s two...