This discussion paper analyzes the relationship between the individual growth dimensions. Futhermore it tries to identify common growth patterns.

Ein großer Anteil der multinational tätigen Großunternehmen ist in technologieintensiven,dynamischen Branchen tätig und verfügt über ein breites Spektrum an technologischenRessourcen. In den vergangenen Dekaden hat ein Großteil dieser Unternehmen zunehmendWertschöpfungsleistungen an...

This paper proposes a model in which the removal of barriers to trade and factor mobility is associated with endogenous fragmentation of the value-added chain. Fragmentation is the outcome of cost competition - the profit-maximizing choice of cost structure by monopolistically competitive firms....

Fragmentation of the value-added-chain is modeled as the reaction of monopolistically competitive firms to the removal of barriers to trade and factor mobility in an integrated trading environment. Since fragmentation requires high-skilled labor, this form of globalization can induce labor...

Germany exhibits a strong reduction in domestic manufacturing production depth (bazaar effect). I argue that this reflects an unbundling of comparative advantage. Using a model where Ricardian plus Heckscher-Ohlin-type comparative advantage relates to fragments of production, I compare a trading...