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[…]

KCG Researcher Joined a Workshop on the World Development Report 2020

28th January 2019
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The World Development Report 2020 of the World Bank will address the topic of Global Value Chains (GVCs) and their role in economic development. The World Bank Group and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) organized a workshop in Berlin on January 18, 2019 to discuss the concept note of the report. During the event, numerous experts and representatives from international organizations, academia, politics, business and NGOs were given the opportunity to inspect the draft document and give their feedback to the authors. KCG Researcher, Cecília Hornok, Ph.D., also participated in the workshop as a discussant[…]

KCG Coordinator Joined the Annual Leibniz Coordinator Meeting

20th December 2018
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KCG Coordinator, Dr. Wan-Hsin Liu, joined the annual Leibniz Meeting of ScienceCampi Coordinators which took place on November 27, 2018 in Berlin. Participating in this meeting enabled the coordinators not only to receive up-to-date and direct information from the Leibniz Association, which is relevant for the general development of the ScienceCampi, but also to exchange knowledge and lessons with other coordinators of the about 19 Leibniz ScienceCampi. The discussions at the meeting this[…]

KCG Researchers Joined the HSU-IfW-Workshop in Development and Environmental Economics

10th December 2018
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KCG PhD researchers Finn Ole Semrau and Frauke Steglich participated in the first joint workshop in Development and Environmental Economics co-organized by the Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg (HSU) and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW). The HSU-IfW-Workshop took place on November 22-23, 2018 at HSU in Hamburg, Germany. It aimed at bringing together researchers from both institutions to discuss research in economics in general and in development and environmental economics in particular[…]

KCG External Research Fellow Michael Lee Visits Kiel

29th November 2018
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Dr. Michael Lee, Senior Lecturer of Marketing at the University of Auckland Business School and KCG External Research Fellow, visits the University of Kiel (CAU) and KCG in the last November week of 2018. His research focusses on brand avoidance, consumer resistance and activism, and, most notably, anti-consumption. He is also Director of the well-known International Centre of Anti-Consumption Research (ICAR) at the University of Auckland. Lee’s research topics are closely[…]

KCG Researcher Gave a Presentation at the Mainz FDI Workshop

23rd November 2018
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KCG PhD Researcher Frauke Steglich joined the fourth Mainz Workshop on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Multinational Corporations on November 15-16 in Mainz, Germany. The workshop aimed at better understanding the role of FDI and multinationals in the world economy and its interactions with politics and institutions from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Prof. Dr. Carolina Villegas-Sanchez from the ESADE Business School Barcelona gave the keynote speech of the workshop[…]

KCG Researchers Joined the 2018 ICAR Symposium “Anti-Consumption – beyond Boundaries” in Spain

15th November 2018
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The 2018 ICAR Symposium with the overarching theme “Anti-Consumption – beyond boundaries” took place on November 9-10, 2018 in Almería, Spain. ICAR, the International Centre of Anti-Consumption, is a network hosted by the University of Auckland (New Zealand) and led by Dr. Michael Lee, KCG External Research Fellow. It is a network of academics, practitioners, and social scientists from different countries who are interested in investigating and better understanding anti-consumption. Lee did not only co-organise the symposium with colleagues from the University of Almería but also gave a presentation based on his current research concerning choice overload and consumers’ boycott behaviour[…]

Trade for Development? A New KCG Research Project Focusing on Ghana

9th November 2018
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The Aid for Trade (AfT) Initiative of the World Trade Organisation aims at supporting developing countries to better deal with trade-related constraints and barriers so that they can be better integrated into the world economy through their engagement in international trade. A key principle behind the AfT Initiative is that free and fair trade can make significant contributions to the economic development and poverty reduction in the developing and emerging countries. Many industrialised countries have initiated new policy measures and/or adjusted the existing ones to support the implementation of the AfT Initiative. One example is Germany[…]