Summary This paper investigates whether patterns of technological specialisation of advanced countries change over a period of time in which globalisation in technology occurs. The theoretical analysis of this question is based on models of new growth and trade theory - especially a model by...

Zusammenfassung Die hohe Korrelation zwischen nationalen Investitions- und Sparquoten ist seit der Studie von Feldstein/Horioka (1980) ein umstrittener, aber zunächst häufig bestätigter empirischer Befund. In diesem Beitrag wird dieser Zusammenhang erneut für die EU-Staaten im Zeitraum von...

Zusammenfassung Die Liberalisierung der Telekommunikation in den EU-Ländern hat zu einer erheblichen Verbilligung der Auslandstelefongespräche und damit zu einem erhöhten internationalen Kommunikationsvolumen geführt. Es stellt sich daher die Frage nach dem Einfluß der internationalen...

Summary Starting from today’s definition of innovation indicators, this paper analyses the dynamic relationships between innovation activities (approximated by two innovation input indicators and one innovation output indicator) and per capita income in Germany for the two periods from 1850...

In EU countries, opening up of telecommunications markets and regulations have helped to reduce the price of digital services which is an important quasi-input factor in all firms. Integrating the use of telecommunications in a macroeconomic production function is the analytical starting point...

The international economic debate on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has focused mainly on trade induced real income gains while the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)-related and innovation induced benefits have been largely neglected, although the EU and the US are...

We study the impact of service trade restrictions on bilateral greenfield FDI projects in four business services sectors within a gravity model framework. Project level FDI data for 43 destination countries and up to 41 source countries spanning the years 2014–2020 stems from the fDi Markets...