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[…]

KCG Research Seminar by Charles G. Ackah on Firm Responses to Electricity Shortages in Ghana

26th February 2019
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Within the framework of a joint project “How can Trade Contribute to Development? Micro-based Evidence for Ghana”, Dr. Charles G. Ackah (University of Ghana) will visit the Kiel Centre for Globalization (KCG) from February 26 to March 1, 2019. In addition to research meetings and discussions with the KCG project members, Prof. Holger Görg, Ph.D. (KCG Managing Director) and Cecilia Hornok, Ph.D. (KCG Fellow), Ackah will give a KCG research seminar based on his current paper “Productivity Losses and Firm Responses to Electricity Shortages: Evidence from Ghana”[…]

Die Effekte deutscher Direktinvestitionen im Empfängerland vor dem Hintergrund des Leistungsbilanzüberschusses: Empirische Evidenz mit Mikrodaten für Frankreich

21st February 2019
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Autoren: Holger Görg und Léa Marchal (Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 2019, Band 20, Heft 1, 53-69)

Deutschland hat seit Jahren einen Leistungsbilanzüberschuss, der international kritisiert wird. Die Bedeutung der deutschen Direktinvestitionen im Ausland ist dabei in den letzten Jahren stark angestiegen. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersucht diese Studie die Effekte von Direktinvestitionen auf Unternehmen im Gastland. Dazu werden Unternehmensdaten für Frankreich verwendet. Insgesamt liefert die Studie zwei wirtschaftspolitisch relevante Ergebnisse. Zum einen haben deutsche Übernahmen von französischen Unternehmen im Durchschnitt keine negativen Auswirkungen auf Produktivität, Qualifikationsstruktur und Handelsaktivität der übernommenen Unternehmen. Zum anderen zeigt sich[…]

More Needs to be Done to Improve the Quality of Institutions in Africa for Development

8th February 2019
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On December 18, 2018 the Africa-Europe Forum with the overarching theme “Taking Cooperation to the Digital Age” took place in Vienna, Austria. At the Forum key decision makers from politics and business and other stakeholders from both Africa and Europe discussed about what should and can be done to foster both sides’ prosperity and competitiveness and to further intensify the bilateral relationships between the two continents in various economic and societal aspects. One key concluding remark of the Forum[…]

Chinese Direct Investment in Europe – Challenges for EU FDI Policy

31st January 2019
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Authors: Frank Bickenbach and Wan-Hsin Liu (CESifo Forum, 2018, Vol. 19(4), 15-22)

Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) into the European Union (EU) has increased substantially over the last decade. Whereas the EU generally welcomes inward FDI, FDI from China has been often accompanied by concerns. In view of these developments, the EU now faces the challenge of reforming its FDI policy in such a way as to simultaneously (i) defend the EU’s current openness to FDI (including from China); (ii) address the security concerns that have been raised for some types of FDI[…]