Thilo Kroeger to Present at the Midwest International Economics Meeting and at Yale University

11th October 2019
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KCG Fellow Thilo Kroeger will present joint research at the Midwest Economic Theory and International Trade Conference at Washington University in St. Louis on October 13. The Conference was established in 1981 with the goal to foster and encourage research in international trade. Bi-annually around 50 papers on topics in international trade are presented at the Conference. Thilo Kroeger will present his joint work with Prof. Holger Görg, Ph.D., Prof. Horst Raff, Ph.D. and Frauke Steglich[...]

KCG Lunch-Time Seminar on the Trade Effects of Antidumping Duties on Oct. 8, 2019

7th October 2019
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Prof. Dr. Alexander-Nikolai Sandkamp (Kiel University & Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)) will give a research seminar based on his paper “The Trade Effects of Antidumping Duties: Evidence from the 2004 EU Enlargement” on October 8, 2019. The seminar is co-organised by IfW and KCG.

Abstract: With over 1,600 measures in force in 2017, antidumping (AD) duties constitute a frequently used trade defence instrument. Theory predicts that, unlike normal tariffs, AD duties raise producer prices[...]

KCG Researchers Gave Presentations at the PEGNet Annual Conference

2nd October 2019
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KCG PhD Fellows Finn Ole Semrau and Frauke Steglich joined the Annual Conference of the Poverty Reduction, Equity and Growth Network (PEGNet) on September 9-10, 2019 in Bonn. The conference brought together development researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to discuss topics related to this year’s conference theme “Promoting Social, Economic and Socio-political Development through Social Protection”.[...]

KCG Lunch-Time Seminar on the Extensive Margin of Trade on Oct. 1, 2019

23rd September 2019
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Dr. Julian Hinz (KCG and Kiel Institute for the World Economy) will give a research seminar on the extensive margin of trade on October 1, 2019. The presentation is based on his current paper titled “Persistent Zeros: The Extensive Margin of Trade”, co-authored with Amrei Stammann (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf) and Joschka Wanner (University of Bayreuth). The seminar is co-organised by KCG and the Kiel Institute.[...]

Today in Kiel: Global Economic Symposium on Globalization in the Digital Age

10th September 2019
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The Global Economic Symposium (GES) Kiel organised by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy – in partnership with the City of Kiel, the State of Schleswig-Holstein, the Chambers of Commerce and Industry Schleswig-Holstein as well as ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius – will takes place in Kiel this afternoon. With its overarching theme “Globalization in the Digital Age”, GES aims at bringing together international experts and local actors and stakeholders from Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany to identify the challenges that digitalization may pose to globalization in general and firm activities, education and society on site in particular. The experts and participants from academia[…]

KCG Researchers Work on a new GIZ Project on FDI Promotion in Africa

6th September 2019
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Africa is low and there has been no significant growth in recent decades. While the FDI stock worldwide has increased from 20.3 trillion USD in 2010 to 33.5 trillion USD in 2017, the comparable figures for the African continent are only 598 and 867 billion USD respectively (UNCTAD, 2018). This means that[…]

KCG Involved in a New DFG Project on Social and Vicarious Consumer Animosity

28th August 2019
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Prof. Dr. Stefan Hoffmann (KCG and Kiel University) will lead a new research project “Me, we, and them: A context-sensitive model of social and vicarious consumer animosity (ME-WE-THEM)”, in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Oliver Trendel (Grenoble Ecole de Management) and Prof. Dr. Robert Mai (Grenoble Ecole de Management). Two further KCG Research Fellows will be[…]

KCG Researchers Commented on US-China Trade War

15th August 2019
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A recent KCG study “Friends like this: the Impact of the US – China Trade War on Global Value Chains” by Dr. Haiou Mao (Wuhan University and KCG Guest Researcher) and Prof. Holger Görg, Ph.D. (KCG Managing Director) investigates the indirect impact of the tariff increases between the US and China on third countries through their (differently strong) links in the global value chains. The analysis shows that the tariff hikes increase cumulative tariffs for other countries and[…]