This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...

This study explores the contribution of the deepening of existing products (intensive margin), the emergence of new products (extensive margin), and the demise of existing products (failure margin) to the export expansion of developing Asian countries in 1990-2017. Using data based on the...

The purpose of this paper is to set the issue of Chinese investment in Southeast Asia in two contexts: the changing geography of economic growth and patterns of trade and investment across the world as a whole, and the accompanying quiet revolution that has taken place in the international...

Taiwan faces the average monthly real wages fall to the 1998 level, but the researches only express the fact without discussing the reasons. Many Taiwan scholars try to explain the change of wages according to the economic theories such as New Keynesian theory or wage curve from the average view...

The process of "redefining" capitalism or reinterpreting capitalism ideologies in a modern context can reveal the virtues of classical economics and the ways they can help solve contemporary global problems. In Redefining Capitalism in Global Economic Development, Kui-Wai Li helps us reconsider...