KCG Seminar on Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Trade by Simon Galle

11th June 2019
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While it is widely recognised that international trade and globalization are supportive for economic growth in general, it is also clear that globalization does not only have winners but also losers and undesirable side effects. The argument that globalization intensifies inequality has been used by various stakeholders and countries to advocate more and intensive protectionist measures against international trade and globalization. The indeed strongly increasing protectionist tendency worldwide in the recent past shows that it is highly important to gain[…]

Research Report on Trade for Development in Ghana Published Today

5th June 2019
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A new research report “Can Trade Foster Development? Firm-level Evidence for Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana” as a key output of the KCG research project “How can Trade Contribute to Development? Micro-based Evidence for Ghana” is published and available online today. The research project has been funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ GmbH). The report was prepared by Prof. Holger Görg Ph.D. (KCG Managing Director) and Cecília Hornok, Ph.D. (KCG Fellow), in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Charles Ackah from the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic[…]

Which Boats are lifted by a Foreign Tide? Direct and Indirect Wage Effects of Foreign Ownership

4th June 2019
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Authors: Sourafel Girma, Holger Görg and Erasmus Kersting (Journal of International Business Studies, 2019, Vol. 50(6), 923-947)

The attraction of foreign direct investment (FDI) is considered to be of particular importance for emerging economies because it represents a channel through which international convergence in standards of living may be achieved. One important effect of FDI is its impact on wages, both within the targeted firm (direct) and the local firms within the same geographic region and sector (indirect). In this paper we investigate the question whether multinational enterprises[…]

KCG Researchers Participated in the CASS-IfW Workshop 2019 on Global Challenges and Solutions

31st May 2019
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The Kiel Institute for the World Economy, one of the scientific partners of KCG, organised an academic workshop with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in cooperation with the Global Solutions Initiative on April 16, 2019 in Kiel Germany. Under the overarching theme “Global Challenges and Global Solutions”, more than 40 scholars, including a 20-person CASS-Delegation […]

KCG Study on Trade for Development Presented in Accra, Ghana

21st May 2019
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A new KCG Study “Can Trade Foster Development? Firm-level Evidence for Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana”, in cooperation with the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research of the University of Ghana, will be presented by Prof. Dr. Charles Ackah (University of Ghana) and Prof. Holger Görg, Ph.D. (KCG Managing Director) for the first time at a dissemination and policy workshop of the same name on May 21, 2019 in Accra, Ghana. The study, financially supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), investigates the impact of Ghanaian manufacturing SMEs’ exporting and importing activities on their own and other firms’ productivity, employment structure, wage levels, skill structure, and training activities and on the gender equality based on a unique survey-based firm-level database. Cecília Hornok […]

Thilo Kroeger Presented at the Workshop on Labour Economics in Trier

9th May 2019
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The Trier Workshop on Labour Economics, which took place on April 12-13, 2019, aimed to “facilitate the networking of young scientists and to promote the exchange of research ideas and results across a range of fields, including labour economics and personnel economics, health economics, education economics, demography and migration” (IAAEG, 2019). It is organized by the Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union (IAAEU) and the Chair of Personnel Economics at the University of Trier[…]

KCG Seminar on Export Impact of the EU-Korea Free Trade Agreement by Sonali Chowdhry

7th May 2019
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Sonali Chowdhry
Sonali Chowdhry who is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD Fellow with the EU Trade and Investment Policy ITN and a new KCG Fellow since April 2019 will give a presentation based on her paper “Impact of the EU-Korea Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on Firms’ Exporting Activity” on May 10, 2019 at 12:00 in the Medienraum (A-211) at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy[…]