Holger Görg in a ZDFinfo Documentary on Globalization to be Shown on April 11, 2019

9th April 2019
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It is widely recognised among economists that globalization is an important driver of economic growth. Globalization does not only have winners but also losers and undesirable side-effects, however. In reality, we thus observe that globalization benefits have been increasingly questioned from various sides. Companies and employees, for example, are concerned about business relocations and increasing import competition driven by more highly integrated global value chains than ever. They fear a collapse of the industrial base, the outflow of technical knowledge, the threat to jobs, the income loss and growing income inequalities.  Many also fear a creeping erosion of high domestic standards for safety of consumption and environmental […]

KCG Researchers Contributed to a BMF Research Project on FDI and the German Current Account

4th April 2019
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KCG Researchers, Prof. Holger Görg, Ph.D., Cecília Hornok, Ph.D, and Dr. Léa Marchal, worked on a joint research project titled “On the Economic Relevance of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) and their Role for the German Current Account Balance” with the Forecasting Centre  at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. The project was financially supported by the German Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF)  from October 2017 to March 2018. With project members from both KCG and the Forecasting Centre, the team was able to investigate the economic relevance of German FDI from both macro- and microeconomic perspectives[…]

How Borrowing Constraints Hinder Migration: Theoretical Insights from a RUM Model

2nd April 2019
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Authors: Léa Marchal and Claire Naiditch (Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2020, Vol. 122(2), 732-761)

We provide a theoretical framework to analyze how financial constraints hinder migration. Introducing wealth heterogeneity and borrowing constraints into a RUM model of migration, we find evidence of multilateral resistance to migration stemming from borrowing constraints[…]

KCG Welcomes Prof. Dr. Stephen Arthur LeMay as a KCG External Research Fellow

28th March 2019
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It is our pleasure to announce that Prof. Dr. Stephen Arthur LeMay recently joined the Kiel Centre for Globalization as a KCG External Research Fellow. LeMay is an Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing, Supply Chain Logistics, and Economics at the University of West Florida. He has extensive expertise and research experience in the fields of supply chain management and logistics, particularly with special emphasis on human resources, supply chain management and ethics, as well as customer and consumer relevant moral issues[…]

KCG Researcher Works on a New Project as to Finality and Growth Criticism

25th March 2019
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Prof. Dr. Ludger Heidbrink, KCG Senior Research Fellow and Chair of Practical Philosophy, is engaged in a new research project “Finite world and open future. Finality and growth criticism in contemporary political thought” in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Tine Stein from the University Göttingen. This project is concerned with the impact of secularised conceptions of time and progress on economic growth theories and their ecological critique. The underlying research hypothesis is that secularisation led to the development of modern ideas of progress and growth that stem from a transfer of life-based conceptions of time to world-based conceptions. The linkage between life-time and world-time did not only contribute to the persistency of the modern idea of growth, but led equally to a crisis of the growth-based model of society[…]

KCG Researchers Gave Presentations at the Göttingen Workshop “Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen”

19th March 2019
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KCG Researchers Finn Ole Semrau and Frauke Steglich joined the 21st Göttingen Workshop “Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen“, which took place on February 20-22 in Göttingen, Germany. Organized by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Rübel (University Göttingen) and Prof. Dr. Carsten Eckel (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) in cooperation with the Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research (cege), the workshop brought together German speaking junior and senior academics who specialize in theoretical and empirical international economics[…]

Haiou Mao from the Wuhan University (China) is Visiting KCG as a Guest Researcher

15th March 2019
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Dr. Haiou Mao from the Wuhan University, China, is visiting KCG as a Postdoc Guest Researcher from March 1, 2019 to February 29, 2020. Mao as an awardee of a scholarship granted by the Sino-German Science Centre (Chinesisch-Deutsches Zentrum für Wissenschaftsförderung) plans to work on her project entitled “Foreign Divestment and Former Foreign Firm’s Innovation Performance”. In this research she will use Chinese firm-level data to investigate whether the divestment by foreign firms has a detrimental effect on the innovation[…]