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Julian Hinz will Discuss the African Continental Free Trade Agreement at the 3D Seminar this Thursday

22nd November 2022
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Prof. Dr. Julian Hinz (KCG, Kiel Institute and Bielefeld University) will attend the next Digital Development Dialogue (3D) Seminar on Nov. 24, 2022 to discuss the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) and whether it would be a boon or bane for the continent. About three and a half years ago, AfCFTA entered into force. The agreement was often considered as an important milestone on the continent’s way towards trade liberalization[...]

Görg on G20: “The Fine Words Must Now Finally be Followed by Action.”

21st November 2022
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In 2008 the G20 Summit was held for the first time in response to the worldwide financial and economic crisis. Since then the G20 Summit was held annually. The latest G20 Summit took place in Bali, Indonesia on Nov. 15-16, 2022. The G20 shall serve as a crucial forum for fostering global economic cooperation. The multidimensional crises and rising protectionism, and geopolitical tensions particularly in the recent past have posed a serious challenge to the G20, its functionality and its relevance for global governance[...]

Lars Hecker Joins KCG as a Research Fellow

4th October 2022
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On September 15th, Lars Hecker joined the KCG as a Research Fellow. He is also a doctoral researcher in the Research Centre “Innovation and International Competition” at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. He will be involved in projects in the "Kiel Institute Africa Initiative" and will work on studies related to the growth of African companies in terms of their foreign trade performance and use of technology[...]

Görg Emphasised “German Companies Must Continue to Innovate” in a new GTAI Export Analysis

15th September 2022
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Against the background of a continuously rising global market competition, Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI) published its new export analysis on September 9, 2022 to provide an up-to-date overview of German exporters’ competitiveness in an international comparison. The report focuses on Germany’s four leading sectors, incl. mechanical engineering, automotive, chemicals and the electronics/digital industry. It aims at analyzing[...]

A New Kiel Study on Trade and Welfare Impacts of Decoupling Gives Lessons for the Current Conflict between Russia and the West

14th March 2022
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With ever-increasing political tensions between China and Russia on one side and the EU and the US on the other, it only seems a matter of time until protectionist policies cause a decoupling of global value chains. How would such a decoupling affect trade and welfare of countries and regions directly involved and the rest of the world is examined in a new study from Prof. Dr. Gabriel Felbermayr (Austrian Institute of Economic Research and KCG), Hendrik Mahlkow (Kiel Institute for the World Economy) and Prof. Dr. Alexander Sandkamp (Kiel Institute, Kiel University and KCG)[...]

KCG Seminar by Alina Mulyukova on Impacts of India’s Special Economic Zones on Firm Performance

7th March 2022
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China’s open-door policy that strongly drove its economic growth and its intensive integration into the world economy over the past decades started with the establishment of special economic zones (SEZs) in South China. In response to China’s positive experience with SEZs, many other developing countries worldwide introduced place-based policies and set up a large number of SEZs in the hope of pushing forward their own economic development[...]

Kiel Institute Research Seminar by Finn Ole Semrau on Firms’ Global Value Chain Positioning and Clean Production

17th January 2022
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How to improve sustainability in global value chains (GVCs) is a key question that has been intensively addressed not only in coordinated multinational efforts like G20 but also by national policy engagement like Germany’s Supply Chain Law. Many firms and actors have been involved in GVCs to produce goods and services for the world demand. They have been responsible for specific tasks along the GVCs. Due to firms’ different GVC positions, they may be confronted with challenges to different extents while being required to improve, for example, their environmental performance to help achieve higher environmental sustainability in GVCs[...]

Görg Gave an Interview on the Impact of China’s 20-year WTO Membership and on China-Germany Economic Relations

13th January 2022
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In late 2021, China celebrated the 20th anniversary of its WTO membership. On December 11, 2001 China became the 143rd member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) after a long-lasting negotiation process and large-scale economic reforms to fulfil the accession requirements. Through China’s WTO accession, it became – formally and institutionally – an important part of the multilateral trading system[...]