-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different implications of the growing importance of trade in intermediate inputs. The first … chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …

from closer ties with the EU that result in higher levels of trade and FDI inflows, once the turbulence of the 'Arab Spring …

at contributing to the understanding of non-standard determinants of trade and migration: historical and cultural … costs of natural disasters: trade openness and income per capita (Chapter 4), and natural disasters, international …

This research report investigates the trade and growth benefits of the CEFTA agreement for its members. Although the … economic growth. However, there is trade heterogeneity in terms of the extent to which individual countries use CEFTA value …

industry level the impact of energy prices on green innovation activities. Our econometric models show that energy prices and … green innovation activities are positively related and that energy prices have a significantly positive impact on the ratio … lag between energy prices and innovation activities. Robustness tests confirm the main results. …

energy related policies on domestic innovation activities. Under control of the respective domestic policy stringency, we …. Hence, we see that foreign policy impacts domestic innovation primarily from the demand side. We further find that foreign … subsidies negatively affect domestic innovation activities of foreign owned firms operating in domestic. Finally, we find that …

" des europäischen Forschungsprojekts TRUSTEE ("Towards RUral Synergies and Trade-offs between Economic development and …

A strong innovation performance based on R&D, product development and the implementation of advanced production … offshoring on R&D and innovation activities of the firm in the home country. The analysis is based on a dataset of more than 3000 … manufacturing firms from seven European countries. We employ propensity score matching to compare R&D and innovation activities of …