Multinational Enterprises and Host Country Development 12th December 2017 KCG Secretary Books Books Books Multinational Enterprises and Host Country Development is a unique collection of papers looking at different aspects of the link between multinational enterprises and their effects on the host countries' economies. Author: Holger Görg (2016, World Scientific Studies in International Economics, Volume 53)[…]
Leibniz ScienceCampi Coordinators met last week 7th December 2017 KCG Secretary News News News The Leibniz Association held a meeting for the coordinators of the 19 Leibniz ScienceCampi on the 29th of November in Berlin, as part of the Leibniz Association Annual Meeting 2017. The purpose of the meeting was to bring together the coordinators of the ScienceCampi from all over Germany and inform them about important recent developments in the Leibniz Association. The KCG was represented by Deputy Coordinator Cecilia Hornok[…]
KCG Working Paper No. 7: Incentives through Inventory Control in Supply Chains 1st December 2017 KCG Secretary KCG Working Papers Publications Publications Publications Authors: Zhan Qu, Horst Raff and Nicolas Schmitt The paper shows that taking inventory control out of the hands of competitive or exclusive retailers and assigning it to a manufacturer increases the value of a supply chain especially for goods whose demand is highly volatile[…]
KCG Working Paper No. 6: Centralized versus Decentralized Inventory Control in Supply Chains and the Bullwhip Effect 1st December 2017 KCG Secretary KCG Working Papers Publications Publications Publications Authors: Zhan Qu and Horst Raff This paper constructs a model of a supply chain to examine how demand volatility is passed upstream through the chain. In particular, we seek to determine how likely it is that the […]
Two New Working Papers of KCG Professor Horst Raff Are Now Online 1st December 2017 KCG Secretary News News News Professor Horst Raff and his co-authors have recently finished two working papers. Both papers examine, with the help of microeconomic models, some important aspects of inventory management within supply chains. The first paper “Centralized versus Decentralized Inventory Control in Supply Chains and the Bullwhip Effect”, co-authored with Zhan Qu from the Technical University Dresden, looks at how demand volatility is passed upstream through the value chain. In particular, they look at under which circumstances this volatility is enhanced so that the variance of upstream production[…]
Handbook of International Trade and Transportation: Offshoring and Transport Costs 1st December 2017 KCG Secretary KCG Journal Articles Authors: Holger Görg and Aoife Hanley (Handbook of International Trade, 2018, Chapter 7, 236–258) International trade has grown rapidly over the past half century, accommodated by the transportation industry through concomitant growth and technological change. But while the connection between transport and […]
Guli-Sanam Karimova visited a PhD seminar on Qualitative Methods and Research Design in France 23rd November 2017 KCG Secretary News News News Consumption nowadays – in emerging economies as well as in developed ones – does not only serve for the satisfaction of basic needs anymore. Both the role of consumption and the lifestyles of consumers have changed with increasing globalization of economic production and consumption patterns over time. The intensification of globalization over the past decades has triggered an increasing interest in research about the role of consumer culture and the meaning of responsible consumption in a globalized world.
Vertical Integration and Supplier Finance 23rd November 2017 KCG Secretary KCG Journal Articles Publications Authors: Holger Görg and Ersamus Kersting (Canadian Journal of Economics, 2017, Vol. 50(1), 273-305) This paper studies access to finance by suppliers that are linked to a multinational enterprise. The theoretical framework consists of a property rights model featuring suppliers that are either vertically integrated or sell to the multinational […]
Foreign Ownership and the Export and Import Propensities of Developing-Country Firms 23rd November 2017 KCG Secretary KCG Journal Articles Publications Authors: Dominik Boddin, Horst Raff, Natalia Trofimenko (The World Economy, 2017, Vol. 40(12), 2543-2563) This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys 2002–06 to investigate how foreign ownership affects the likelihood of manufacturers in developing countries to export and/or import either directly or indirectly[…]
KCG Professors Have Contributed to the Report of the German Council of Economic Advisors 16th November 2017 KCG Secretary News News News Holger Görg and Aoife Hanley wrote a background paper for the latest report by the German Council of Economic Advisors (Sachverständigenrat). The background paper, entitled “Globalization: Implications for Firms in Germany”, looks at data at the firm level to shed light on questions such as: What types of firms are involved in trade or investments? What distinguishes these globalized firms, if anything, from firms that are not engaged in these international activities?[…]