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A new KCG Team Website for a Growing Research Team

30th April 2018

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When the Kiel Centre for Globalization (KCG) was founded in October 2016, it started with a research team consisting of eight professors from different disciplines and nine postdoctoral and doctoral fellows. Over the past one and a half years, the KCG team was gradually expanded to a team which now has 31 research members in total. In addition to the 17 founding members[…]

Free Trade is not just a Matter of Tariffs

19th April 2018

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International Trade is an essential element and a key driver of the strongly intensifying globalization over the past decades. When discussing how to promote free trade, many tend to focus on how tariffs on cross-border traded goods can be (substantially) reduced over time[…]

KCG Working Paper No. 11: Employment Protection and Firm Relocation: Theory and Evidence

17th April 2018

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Authors: Gerda Dewit, Holger Görg and Yama Temouri

We examine the determinants of the decision to relocate activities abroad for firms located in OECD countries. We argue that particular firm-specific features play a crucial role for the link between employment protection and relocation[…]

A New KCG Paper on the Effect of Financial Frictions on Foreign Direct Investment

12th April 2018

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Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been widely recognised among economists as one of the key factors behind significant inflows of capital, technologies and know-how in emerging and developing countries that helped deal with low growth and poverty challenges in these countries in the past. FDI has played an essential role in intensifying globalization as well by having integrated a great number of countries into the expanding global supply chains and the world economy over time[…]

KCG PhD Researchers Participated in a Week-long Lecture on “Dynamics of International Trade”

5th April 2018

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In March 2018 two KCG PhD Researchers Thilo Kroeger and Frauke Steglich attended a lecture provided by Samuel Kortum, James Burrows Moffatt Professor of Economics at Yale University. The lecture “Dynamics of International Trade” took place at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy as part of the Kiel Institute’s Advanced Studies Program[…]

Financial Frictions and Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from Japanese Microdata

5th April 2018

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Authors: Horst Raff, Michael Ryan and Frank Stähler (Journal of International Economics, 2018, Vol. 112, 109-122)

Using Japanese microdata for the period 1980 to 2000 we find evidence for two transmission channels from financial shocks to foreign direct investment: a collateral channel, whereby changes in the value of investors’ landholdings affect their borrowing ability; and a lending channel[…]

Jakob Lehr Joins the KCG

3rd April 2018

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Jakob Lehr joins the Kiel Centre for Globalization (KCG) in April 2018 as a PhD researcher. He will work in the KCG project "Global Supply Chains, Environmental Regulation and Green Innovation". Before coming to Kiel, he studied economics at Humboldt University in Berlin[…]

Science Jazz in New Orleans! KCG Researchers Joined 2018 AMA Winter Academic Conference in New Orleans, USA

22nd March 2018

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KCG Researchers, Nils Christian Hoffmann, Prof. Dr. Stefan Hoffmann, and Guli-Sanam Karimova, participated in the 2018 AMA Winter Academic Conference from February 23rd to 25th 2018 in New Orleans, Louisiana (USA). There they presented their first scientific results from the KCG project “Cross-cultural differences in the perception of corporate social responsibility and consumer social responsibility along global supply chains”[…]

KCG Working Paper No. 10: Financial Frictions and Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from Japanese Microdata

16th March 2018

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Authors: Horst Raff, Michael Ryan and Frank Stähler

Using Japanese microdata for the period 1980 to 2000 we find evidence for two transmission channels from financial shocks to foreign direct investment: a collateral channel, whereby changes in the value of investors’ landholdings affect their borrowing ability; and a lending channel, whereby changes in bank health affect banks’ lending ability. Decreasing land values[…]

FAZ Article on Corporate Morality and Manager Behaviour by Ludger Heidbrink

15th March 2018

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Business ethics has been a widely discussed topic for years. The need for further research to gain more insights into this area has been enhanced particularly against the background with more and more business scandals emerged in the real life like VW’s software manipulation in diesel powered vehicles and diesel emissions tests on monkeys and humans[…]

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