Germany is one of the five largest consumer markets in the world. Given that both supply chains and water consumption in agriculture, industry and underlying resource extraction and energy generation are globally intertwined, consumption in Germany undeniably has a major impact on global water...

Es werden theoretische und empirische Aspekte der Kuppelproduktion untersucht, wobei unerwünschte Kuppelprodukte als Ursache von Umweltproblemen im Vordergrund stehen. Ziel ist es, die Folgen umweltpolitischer Maßnahmen auf Industriebereiche, die durch Kuppelproduktion vernetzt sind, zu...

This working paper introduces the concept of Trade in Value Added (TiVA) and presents an initial analysis of TiVA for selected regional ESCAP economies. The paper introduces Global Value Chains (GVCs) and issues for the measurement of trade statistics due to proliferation of GVCs. It further...

In a world with increasingly integrated global supply chains, trade policy targeting upstream products has unintended consequences on their downstream industries. In this paper, we examine whether protection granted to intermediate manufacturers leads to petition for protection by their...