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KCG Study on Trade for Development Presented in Accra, Ghana

21st May 2019
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A new KCG Study “Can Trade Foster Development? Firm-level Evidence for Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana”, in cooperation with the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research of the University of Ghana, will be presented by Prof. Dr. Charles Ackah (University of Ghana) and Prof. Holger Görg, Ph.D. (KCG Managing Director) for the first time at a dissemination and policy workshop of the same name on May 21, 2019 in Accra, Ghana. The study, financially supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), investigates the impact of Ghanaian manufacturing SMEs’ exporting and importing activities on their own and other firms’ productivity, employment structure, wage levels, skill structure, and training activities and on the gender equality based on a unique survey-based firm-level database. Cecília Hornok […]

Thilo Kroeger Presented at the Workshop on Labour Economics in Trier

9th May 2019
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The Trier Workshop on Labour Economics, which took place on April 12-13, 2019, aimed to “facilitate the networking of young scientists and to promote the exchange of research ideas and results across a range of fields, including labour economics and personnel economics, health economics, education economics, demography and migration” (IAAEG, 2019). It is organized by the Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union (IAAEU) and the Chair of Personnel Economics at the University of Trier[…]

KCG Seminar on Export Impact of the EU-Korea Free Trade Agreement by Sonali Chowdhry

7th May 2019
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Sonali Chowdhry who is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD Fellow with the EU Trade and Investment Policy ITN and a new KCG Fellow since April 2019 will give a presentation based on her paper “Impact of the EU-Korea Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on Firms’ Exporting Activity” on May 10, 2019 at 12:00 in the Medienraum (A-211) at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy[…]

KCG will Co-organise a Workshop on Consumer Social Responsibility on May 23-24 in Kiel

25th April 2019
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KCG works on an interdisciplinary research agenda that analyses the economic and social consequences of global supply chains, focusing particularly on related ethical issues. One key aspect here is the role of consumers and their social responsibility along the global supply chains. The KCG Project “Cross-cultural differences in the perception of corporate social responsibility and consumer social responsibility along global supply chains” thus aims at analysing, amongst others, how consumers in[…]

KCG Researchers Participated in the Global Solutions Summit 2019

18th April 2019
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The Global Solutions Summit 2019 with its overarching theme “Recoupling Social and Economic Progress towards a Global Paradigm Change” was held by the Global Solutions Initiative on March 18-19, 2019 at ESMT in Berlin. The multi-stakeholder event gathered 1600 experts from more than 100 countries together to explore and discuss policy recommendations on issues such as trade and investment, multilateralism, social cohesion, climate change and sustainable development[…]

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[…]