"As China's export juggernaut employs many imported inputs, there are many policy questions for which it is crucial to know the extent of domestic and foreign value added in its exports. The best known approach - the concept of "vertical specialization" proposed by Hummels, Ishii and Yi (2001) -...

This study scrutinizes the impact of value-creating practices in university-industry technology transfer that facilitate the diffusion of knowledge generated in academic research towards its successful application by companies on markets. To be more precise, the aim is to demarcate the role that...

Im Jahr 2007 stiegen die Preise von landwirtschaftlichen Produkten sehr stark. Dadurch erhöhte sich das Einkommen in der Landwirtschaft. Im Jahr 2008 werden die Agrarpreise voraussichtlich unter dem Niveau des Vorjahres liegen. Die Betriebsmittel, vor allem Dieselkraftstoff und Dünger,...