Marion Jansen gives a seminar on “The Use of Economics in International Trade and Investment Disputes”

7th September 2017
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We are happy to announce that Marion Jansen, Chief Economist of the Geneva-based International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, will give a seminar in Kiel on the 20th of September 2017. Ms Jansen will talk about issues related to international economic dispute settlements and the role economists can play in addressing them. The seminar is based on the recently published book “The Use of Economics in International Trade and Investment Disputes” (eds M. Jansen, J. Pauwelyn, T. Carpenter, Cambridge University Press, 2017). More information on the seminar can be found here.[…]

UNIDO/KCG Conference Flyer Available Online

18th August 2017
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In one month the UNIDO/KCG Conference “Developing Inclusive and Sustainable Global Value Chains in the Digital Age” will take place at the Kieler Kaufmann Hotel in Kiel. With the Conference approaching, more and more information about the Conference, including its background, program, speakers and sessions, will be prepared and provided to the participants, interested stakeholders and the general public in due course. Related documents will be gradually made available on the UNIDO/KCG Conference Website as well[…]

Low-income Countries are No Longer at the Losing End of the Competition for FDI

10th August 2017
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) “brings with it not only resources, but technology, access to markets, and (hopefully) valuable training, an improvement in human capital” (Stiglitz 2000: 1076). Thus, FDI has been widely recognised as being advantageous for helping integrate individuals, firms and countries into global value chains and therefore as being an important driver for sustained economic growth. Since the early 1990s UNCTAD has observed that the vast majority of policy measures relating to the entry and establishment of foreign investors aim at liberalizing and promoting FDI inflows, rather than restricting and regulating them[…]

How Global is FDI? Evidence from the Analysis of Theil Indices

10th August 2017
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Authors: Frank Bickenbach, Wan-Hsin Liu and Peter Nunnenkamp (Empirical Economics, 2018, Vol. 55(4), 1603-1635)

It is open to question whether the intensified worldwide competition for FDI has reduced its traditionally strong concentration in a few large and relatively advanced host countries. We calculate and decompose Theil indices to track changes in absolute and relative concentration of FDI during the period 1970-2013. We find that both absolute and relative concentration decreased when excluding offshore financial centres from the overall sample. In addition to the narrowing gap between OECD and non-OECD countries, the concentration across non-OECD countries declined for both the absolute and relative measures[…]

External Research Fellows Join the KCG

27th July 2017
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Nine excellent researchers from different universities and research organizations join the KCG as External Research Fellows: Prof. Alexander Wright Cappelen Ph.D. (Norwegian School of Economics, Norway), Prof. Sourafel Girma Ph.D. (University of Nottingham, UK), Prof. Dr. Stephan Kroll (Colorado State University, US), Dr. Michael Lee (University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand), Dr. Birgit Meyer (University of Vienna, Austria), Prof. Dr. Philipp M. Richter (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany), Adnan Seric Ph.D. (UNIDO, Austria), Prof. Ulrich Wagner Ph.D. (University of Mannheim, […]

Holger Görg and Frauke Steglich Joined the UNIDO-UIBE Workshop on Global Value Chains

20th July 2017
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KCG Managing Director Prof. Holger Görg Ph.D. and KCG PhD Researcher Frauke Steglich joined the UNIDO-UIBE Workshop on global value chains (GVCs) on July 11-12, 2017 in Vienna. The Workshop organized by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the University of International Business and Economics of China (UIBE) aimed at bringing together experts in global value chain research to discuss the general strategy, incl. main objectives, research methods and key outcomes, of the project “A Study on Global Value Chains and International Cooperation on Industrial Capacity with a Focus on China, South-East and South Asian Countries”. The main goal of the project is to provide more insights into the role of global value chains for Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development (ISID), a key component of the Goal 9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, with a special focus on China and other Asian countries.[…]

Ludger Heidbrink Joined Discussion on Consumption at 3SAT

13th July 2017
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Prof. Dr. Ludger Heidbrink (Kiel University), KCG Senior Researcher and Co-Head of the KCG Project “Cross-cultural differences in the perception of corporate social responsibility and consumer social responsibility along global supply chains”, joined a TV discussion on consumption at 3SAT on June 29, 2017. At the discussion „I buy, therefore I am“ moderated by Gert Scobel, Heidbrink discussed with Prof. Frank Trentmann, Ph.D. (Birkbeck College, University of London) about the role of consumption in general and the meaning of responsible consumption in a globalized world in particular. The discussion is expected to encourage the audience to reflect on consumer ethics, the role of culture in economic globalization and potential solutions to the challenges related to the global consumer culture from different perspectives. […]