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KCG Researchers Contributed to a New UNIDO Report on Global Value Chains with Focus on Asia

16th August 2018

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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[…]

Holger Görg: Governments Need to Deal with Negative Impact of Globalization

15th June 2018

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The recent trade dispute, also observed at the G7 Summit last week, shows again how highly relevant and urgent it is to learn more about negative impact of globalization and to develop adequate policies and measures to deal with such impact. Imposing higher tariffs on imports may be an easy action to take. But protectionist measures cannot be the right solutions here. Protectionist measures hinder trade and investment across countries and leave parts of potential benefits of globalization unrealized[…]