KCG Seminar on Extensive Margin of Trade by Julian Hinz 23rd August 2018 KCG Secretary News News News With intensifying global trends towards protectionism, it becomes even more important than before to provide reliable research evidence on determinants of international trade and on their economic and social consequences. This requires the application of adequate (and creative) research methods for data analysis, taking limitations and difficulties of different potential research methods best into account[…]
KCG Researchers Contributed to a New UNIDO Report on Global Value Chains with Focus on Asia 16th August 2018 KCG Secretary News Public Contributions Publications Publications Publications The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) recently published a new report “Global Value Chains (GVCs) and Industrial Development – Lessons from China, South-East and South Asia” to provide evidence on the evolution of global and regional value chains in Asia. From the Asian lessons policy suggestions are derived to support firms’ and countries’ participation in GVCs and encourage their upgrading over time[…]
Overview List of KCG Publications is Now Online Available 9th August 2018 KCG Secretary News News News From KCG’s start in October, 2016 to June, 2018, the KCG researchers have published more than twenty papers in refereed journals and books, twelve KCG working papers (including a background paper for the annual report of German Council of Economic Advisors (Sachverständigenrat) 2017)[…]
Bilateral Trade Disputes are Expected to Have Global Impact 2nd August 2018 KCG Secretary News Public Contributions Publications Publications Publications The joint announcement of the US President, Donald Trump, and the President of the EU Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, towards easing EU-US trade disputes on July 25, 2018 was a surprise. It is a good sign that both EU and US agree on starting new rounds of negotiations to help remove trade barriers between the two economies[…]
Dr. Birgit Meyer is Visiting KCG 26th July 2018 KCG Secretary News News News Dr. Birgit Meyer, Assistant Professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and KCG External Research Fellow, currently has her research visit at KCG. She will stay at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy until August 10, 2018. Before she joined the Vienna University[…]
KCG Researchers Visited Micro-econometrics Summer School in Barcelona, Spain 19th July 2018 KCG Secretary News News News KCG PhD Researchers, Thilo Kroeger, Finn Ole Semrau, and Frauke Steglich, joined the Microeconometrics Summer School offered by the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) from June 25 to July 6, 2018 in Barcelona, Spain. It is of high importance for KCG to support the academic training of its researchers, particularly that of the PhD Researchers[…]
Guli-Sanam Karimova Joined “Consumer Culture Theory” Conference in Odense, Denmark 12th July 2018 KCG Secretary News News News Guli-Sanam Karimova, PhD Researcher of the KCG project “Cross-cultural differences in the perception of corporate social responsibility and consumer social responsibility along global supply chains”, was invited to join the Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) Conference that took place at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) from June 28 to July 1, 2018 in Odense. The overarching theme this year was […]
KCG Seminar by Henning Mühlen on the Role of FDI for Structural Transformation in Mexico 2nd July 2018 KCG Secretary News News News Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows are widely perceived to be able to support economic growth in developing host countries. Multinational enterprises (MNEs) investing on site bring in not only financial resources that are otherwise lacking in these countries. They also bring in more advanced know-how and technologies that are expected to be[…]
KCG Seminar by Sourafel Girma on Chinese Firms’ Gain from Export Processing 28th June 2018 KCG Secretary News News News It has been often argued that China’s rapid rise to a global economic power was strongly attributable to its participation and integration into the world economy and, particularly, the global supply chains. Multinational enterprises (MNEs) coming to China brought in financial resources[…]
UNIDO-KCG Conference 2018 Brought Experts together to Discuss Inclusive and Sustainable Global Value Chains 20th June 2018 KCG Secretary News News News The UNIDO-KCG Conference 2018 with its overarching theme “Global Value Chains (GVCs) as Drivers of Structural Change” was successfully held at the Vienna International Centre on June 18. Prof. Holger Görg, Ph.D (KCG Managing Director) and Dr. Wan-Hsin Liu (KCG Coordinator) joined the Conference in Vienna[…]