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Alina Mulyukova Joined KCG in June 2020

5th June 2020
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Alina Mulyukova joined KCG as a Research Fellow in June 2020. She is also a PhD Researcher in the Research Center “Global Division of Labour” at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy[...]

KCG Policy Paper No. 5: Lagging behind? German Foreign Direct Investment in Africa

3rd June 2020
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Authors: Julian Glitsch, Olivier Godart, Holger Görg, Saskia Mösle, and Frauke Steglich

German Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Africa is lagging behind China, France, the Netherlands, the UK, the US, and other economies. It represented only 1 percent of the German total FDI stock abroad in 2018 and is concentrated in few African countries[…]

KCG Policy Paper on German FDI in Africa Published Today

3rd June 2020
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Around 850 German firms are located in Africa and they employ roughly 200,000 people. However, German Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on the continent represented only 1 percent of the total German FDI stock abroad in 2018. Germany is thus still lagging behind China, France, the Netherlands, the UK, the US, and other economies regarding investment volume in Africa[...]

A New KCG Research Project on the Impact of Special Economic Zones on Inequality

11th May 2020
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Inward foreign direct investment (FDI) is generally considered to be advantageous for supporting economic development in the emerging economies. Foreign investors do not only bring financial resources, know-how and technologies that are (relatively) limited on site into the FDI destination countries but also help local firms to gain better access to and benefit from the global production networks[...]

KCG Fellow Saskia Mösle Involved in a New Study on the COVID-19 Impact on the Global Economy

29th April 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic is a tremendous challenge for the national and global health care. It also poses a huge challenge to the world economy and the international trade. Against this background, Dr. Klaus-Jürgen Gern (Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)) and Saskia Mösle (IfW & KCG) analyse the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy from the point of view of the special economic zones (SEZ) worldwide. Their analysis is based on a recent SEZ survey that was jointly carried out by IfW and the World Free Zones Organization between March 23, 2020, and April 3, 2020[...]

KCG Lunch-Time Seminar on Vertical Contracts in a Supply Chain and the Bullwhip Effect

21st April 2020
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In the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, KCG would like to continuously encourage knowledge exchange and discussions on research on globalization and on global value chains by using digital means. Prof. Horst Raff, Ph.D. (Kiel University & KCG) will give our first Digital Lunch-Time Seminar titled “Vertical Contracts in a Supply Chain and the Bullwhip Effect[...]

UNIDO Published an Opinion Piece on GVC Impact of COVID-19 in Cooperation with KCG

17th April 2020
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The outbreak and spread of the COVID-19 damages the global health and challenges the world economy. One key aspect here is the global value chains which have been extensively developed since decades. Experts from the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) and the Kiel Centre for Globalization (KCG) at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy[...]

Haiou Mao Joins KCG as a KCG External Research Fellow

6th April 2020
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Haiou Mao, Ph.D. (Wuhan University, China) visited KCG as a Postdoc Guest Researcher from March 1, 2019 to February 29, 2020. After her return to China, she will continue her research cooperation with KCG as a KCG External Research Fellow[...]

A New KCG Study on Consumer Reactions towards Supplier Hypocrisy in Global Supply Chains

24th March 2020
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Challenged by the contemporary, strongly competitive, marketplace, companies have increasingly tried to build up resilient relationships with their customers. Many of them engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR) as an essential channel to improve a brand’s reputation and to strengthen consumers’ confidence and trust towards the firm[...]

Vertical Contracts in a Supply Chain and the Bullwhip Effect

23rd March 2020
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Authors: Zhan Qu and Horst Raff (Management Science, 2021, 67(6): 3744–3756)

This paper shows that decentralized supply chains, in which upstream firms use linear wholesale prices, may experience lower upstream production and downstream sales volatility than vertically integrated supply chains, and may be less susceptible to the bullwhip effect[…]

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