Das Werk weist komparative Vorteile gegenüber anderen auf und sollte sich deshalb am Markt durchsetzen. Bei der Stoffauswahl wurde bewusst auf formalen Ballast verzichtet um den Studentinnen und Studenten den Einstieg in die interessanten Bereiche der Weltwirtschaftslehre nicht zu verleiden....

This paper develops a Heckscher-Ohlin-type framework in which relative factor prices are affected by output prices as well as by total factor productivity growth. The empirical analysis finds no evidence that the relative prices of unskilled-labour- intensive manufactures, adjusted for total...

It has become common to measure the quality of exports using their unit export value (UEV). Applications of this method include studies of intra-industry trade (IIT) and analyses of industrial "competitiveness". This literature seems to assume that export quality and export price (the most...

The recent economic policy debate in Germany emphasizes the impact of globalization of the world economy on the German labor market. This paper provides an empirical analysis of the relationship between trade and the labor market in West Germany for the period from 1970 until German...