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New Kiel Study on Firm Impact of Due Diligence EU Legislation

21st September 2023
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A new study “The cumulative effect of due diligence EU legislation on SMEs” requested by the INTA Committee from the European Parliament from the KCG researchers, Aoife Hanley, Finn Ole Semrau, and Frauke Steglich, jointly with Rainer Thiele (Kiel Institute) is now published. The study addresses the expected impact of the EU’s Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)[...]

Open for conference registration: Advancing Sustainability of Critical Supply Chains in Developing Countries

18th September 2023
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On September 26 and 27, the Research Network Sustainable Global Supply Chains will organise a scientific conference “Advancing Sustainability of Critical Supply Chains in Developing Countries” at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (and online). This conference aims at discussing recent research related to sustainability in global supply chains, with a focus on impacts in developing countries[...]

KCG Seminar on Aug. 18: Full-scale Russia’s Trade Sanctions and their Welfare Outcomes

17th August 2023
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Since 2014 the EU has imposed a number of sanctions and restrictive measures against Russia in response to the illegal annexation of Crimea. Alone in the past two years as response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the EU has adopted eleven sanction packages against Russia, including individual sanctions, economic sanctions and diplomatic restrictive measures. [...]

Podcast Interviews on Globalization, Global Value Chains and Friendshoring

11th May 2023
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The development of the global economy faces great challenges nowadays including the US-China trade war, the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion in Ukraine and the rising geopolitical tensions, just to name a few. All these lead to question the future of globalization.
Against this background, Prof. Holger Görg, Ph.D. (Acting President of the Kiel Institute and Managing Director of KCG) gave two Podcast interviews, in which he discusses several key aspects of globalization, particularly of global value chains[...]

Görg warns that throwing around subsidies will not change long-term investment decisions

21st March 2023
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Last August, United States President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), with ensuring the US’s role as the global leader in clean energy technology, manufacturing and innovation as one of its main goals. The IRA’S tax incentives and investment programs supported by massive US government subsidies may increase the attractiveness of the US to many more multinationals, including those from Europe[...]

State Aid can Produce Unintended Losers

23rd February 2023
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Earlier this month, the European Commission proposed to transform the State Aid Temporary Crisis Framework to facilitate the green transition in Europe. One main policy focus of the proposed Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework is to relax the strict state aid rules in the EU, in order to facilitate “the roll-out of renewable energies and to support the decarbonisation of the industry”[...]

A New Study with KCG Involvement on Trade Impact of Floods in China

8th February 2023
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Floods can impact international trade through a variety of different channels. They can destroy crucial transport infrastructure such as roads or ports, directly reducing the capacity of a firm to export. The export capacity of a firm may also be affected by the destruction of public and private assets which are crucial for production. Established trading relationships with customers may be severed by negative flooding shocks, and supply chains for intermediate inputs and services can be affected[...]

Kiel Focus: “Germany’s Planned China Strategy Is the Wrong Approach”

26th January 2023
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How should we engage with China? That question is currently being widely debated. Just a decade ago, the EU and China concluded the EU–China 2020 Strategic Agenda for Cooperation, which aimed at promoting a wide-ranging strategic partnership involving broad-based bilateral cooperation across a variety of areas. Although frequently modified, long-term cooperation was the foundation of bilateral relations between the partners[...]