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KCG Working Paper No. 7: Incentives through Inventory Control in Supply Chains

1st December 2017

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Authors: Zhan Qu, Horst Raff and Nicolas Schmitt

The paper shows that taking inventory control out of the hands of competitive or exclusive retailers and assigning it to a manufacturer increases the value of a supply chain especially
for goods whose demand is highly volatile[…]

KCG Working Paper No. 6: Centralized versus Decentralized Inventory Control in Supply Chains and the Bullwhip Effect

1st December 2017

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Authors: Zhan Qu and Horst Raff

This paper constructs a model of a supply chain to examine how demand volatility is passed upstream through the chain. In particular, we seek to determine how likely it is that the […]

Two New Working Papers of KCG Professor Horst Raff Are Now Online

1st December 2017

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Professor Horst Raff and his co-authors have recently finished two working papers. Both papers examine, with the help of microeconomic models, some important aspects of inventory management within supply chains.

The first paper “Centralized versus Decentralized Inventory Control in Supply Chains and the Bullwhip Effect”, co-authored with Zhan Qu from the Technical University Dresden, looks at how demand volatility is passed upstream through the value chain. In particular, they look at under which circumstances this volatility is enhanced so that the variance of upstream production[…]

Handbook of International Trade and Transportation: Offshoring and Transport Costs

1st December 2017

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Authors: Holger Görg and Aoife Hanley (Handbook of International Trade, 2018, Chapter 7, 236–258)

International trade has grown rapidly over the past half century, accommodated by the transportation industry through concomitant growth and technological change. But while the connection between transport and […]

Guli-Sanam Karimova visited a PhD seminar on Qualitative Methods and Research Design in France

23rd November 2017

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Consumption nowadays – in emerging economies as well as in developed ones – does not only serve for the satisfaction of basic needs anymore. Both the role of consumption and the lifestyles of consumers have changed with increasing globalization of economic production and consumption patterns over time. The intensification of globalization over the past decades has triggered an increasing interest in research about the role of consumer culture and the meaning of responsible consumption in a globalized world.

Vertical Integration and Supplier Finance

23rd November 2017

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Authors: Holger Görg and Ersamus Kersting (Canadian Journal of Economics, 2017, Vol. 50(1), 273-305)

This paper studies access to finance by suppliers that are linked to a multinational enterprise. The theoretical framework consists of a property rights model featuring suppliers that are either vertically integrated or sell to the multinational […]

Foreign Ownership and the Export and Import Propensities of Developing-Country Firms

23rd November 2017

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Authors: Dominik Boddin, Horst Raff, Natalia Trofimenko (The World Economy, 2017, Vol. 40(12), 2543-2563)

This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys 2002–06 to investigate how foreign ownership affects the likelihood of manufacturers in developing countries to export and/or import either directly or indirectly[…]

KCG Professors Have Contributed to the Report of the German Council of Economic Advisors

16th November 2017

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Holger Görg and Aoife Hanley wrote a background paper for the latest report by the German Council of Economic Advisors (Sachverständigenrat). The background paper, entitled “Globalization: Implications for Firms in Germany”, looks at data at the firm level to shed light on questions such as: What types of firms are involved in trade or investments? What distinguishes these globalized firms, if anything, from firms that are not engaged in these international activities?[…]

Finn Ole Semrau Works As International Expert for GIZ in Mozambique

9th November 2017

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KCG junior researcher Finn Ole Semrau is commissioned as international expert and study coordinator by the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. Within the scope of this activity, he visited the provinces of Manica and Sofala in Mozambique for three weeks.
The KCG junior researcher supports the GIZ with the implementation of a baseline study focusing on smallholder farmers commercially active in the agricultural value chains of baobab, pigeon pea and organic rice. The baseline study is part of the monitoring system […]

KCG Working Paper No. 5: Globalization: Implications for firms in Germany

7th November 2017

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Authors: Holger Görg and Aoife Hanley

This paper, however, is not about evaluating whether or not Germany has, on aggregate, done well out of globalization. Rather, we dig deeper into the economy and acknowledge the fact that it is not countries that trade or invest, but rather firms[…]

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