Feindliche Übernahme? Chinas Auslandsinvestitionen unter der Lupe

18th November 2021
KCG Secretary
Authors: Gabriel Felbermayr, Moritz Goldbeck, Alexander-Nikolai Sandkamp (ifo Schnelldienst, 2019, 72 (8): 27–39)

China ist mittlerweile ein wichtiger internationaler Investor. Die ausländischen Direkt- investitionen (ADI) Chinas sind von 2005 bis 2017 von 10 auf ca. 177 Mrd. US-Dollar gestiegen und haben somit stark an Bedeutung gewonnen. Rund 40% der chinesischen ADI wurden im Jahr 2018 in Europa getätigt[...]

Servitization, Inequality, and Wages

18th November 2021
KCG Secretary
Authors: Dominik Boddin, Thilo Kroeger (Labour Economics, forthcoming, 102011)

This paper studies the effect of servitization, i.e., within-establishment changes in the labor force composition towards higher shares of workers with service occupations, on within-establishment wage inequality. We identify servitization as being a main driver of increasing within-establishment wage inequality. Servitization accounts for roughly 7% of the observed increase in the within-establishment wage inequality in manufacturing industries between 1994 and 2017[...]

Can the G20 Serve as a Launchpad for a Multilateral Investment Agreement?

18th November 2021
KCG Secretary
Authors: Axel Berger, Wan-Hsin Liu (The World Economy, 2021, Vol. 44(8), 2284-2302)

The international system for the governance of foreign investments is highly fragmented consisting mainly of bilateral agreements. With the adoption of nine guiding principles for global investment policy-making in 2016, some observers argue that the G20 can actually serve as a launchpad for negotiations of a multilateral investment agreement[...]

Aoife Hanley discusses Chances and Challenges of China’s Energy Transition for German SMEs

8th November 2021
KCG Secretary
Publications
Publications
According to the Paris Agreement negotiated at the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP21, in 2015 and signed afterwards, the countries involved are expected to give updated national pledges every five years to enhance their nationally determined contributions to help limit the greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change. First such official updates are thus expected at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26, that is currently held in Glasgow in United Kingdom[...]

KCG Researchers Analyse the Impact of Maritime Piracy on Trade and Transport

26th October 2021
KCG Secretary
News
News
Maritime shipping has attracted much more attention from the public and politics since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Global supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic, shipping accidents like the Suez Canal grounding of the Ever Given and the recently increasingly severe supply shortages have all induced many to question the reliability of maritime shipping and the impact of shipping disruptions or disturbances on trade[...]

Where has the rum gone? The impact of maritime piracy on trade and transport

26th October 2021
KCG Secretary
Authors: Alexander Sandkamp, Vincent Stamer, Shuyao Yang (Review of World Economics, forthcoming)
Despite a general agreement that piracy poses a significant threat to maritime shipping, empirical evidence regarding its economic consequences remains scarce. This paper combines firm-level Chinese customs data and ship position data with information on pirate attacks to investigate how exporting firms and cargo ships respond to maritime piracy[...]

KCG Seminar by Julian Hinz on Frictions to intranational investment on Sep. 21, 2021

13th September 2021
KCG Secretary
News
News
There has been much research evidence showing that geographical and cultural distances have played a negative role for firms’ internationalization or, more concretely, their engagement in investments abroad. Comparably less attention has been paid to the nexus between geographical and cultural distances and intranational investments. Although such geographical and cultural distances within a country are probably much smaller, this does not necessarily mean that they could not play a likewise critical role in determining firms’ intranational investments decisions and thus affecting the allocation efficiency of capital[...]