Policy makers in "small" countries facing trade liberalisation have become concerned with the potential loss of manufacturing employment and output to "large" economies in the presence of economies of scale in production and international transport costs. This paper offers a methodology to...

In den 90er Jahren hat die deutsche Wirtschaft bei forschungsintensiven Waren und wissensintensiven Dienstleistungen im internationalen Vergleich etwas an Boden verloren, insbesondere gegenüber den USA. Deutschland ist es im letzten Jahrzehnt weniger gut gelungen, die Potentiale an...

This study suggests another explanation of the missing globalization puzzle typically observed in the empirical gravity models. In contrast to the previous research that focused on aggregated trade flows, we employ the trade flows in manufacturing products broken down by 25 three-digit ISIC...