Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- Part I: Theoretical Foundations and Existing Empirical Evidence.- Part II: Empirical Contributions.- Appendices.- References.

About the Author

Patricia Hofmann, born in 1979, studied Economics at the University of Toulouse and the University of Hohenheim, where she graduated as Diplom-Ökonomin in 2005. After finishing the ‘Advanced Studies Program in International Economic Policy Research’ (ASP) at the ‘Institut für Weltwirtschaft Kiel’ (IfW) she did her doctoral studies at the University of Hohenheim and was visiting PhD student at the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP), University of Nottingham. She achieved her doctorate in Economics in 2012.