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Merits of Financial Market Development for Developing Countries

30th December 2016
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Financial market development has its impact on economic development wide beyond national boundaries. Here multinational enterprises (MNEs) play a crucial role. Recent empirical studies carried out by Görg and Kersting (2016) and Donaubauer et al. (2016) found, among others, that:

Well-developed financial markets, either in source or host countries, foster bilateral foreign direct investment. Well-developed financial markets in source countries compensate for poorly developed financial systems […]

KCG Kick-off Meeting Held on December 9th, 2016

15th December 2016
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The Kiel Centre for Globalization (KCG) is a joint initiative of Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel and Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Its interdisciplinary research team currently works on four interrelated research projects to investigate various selected aspects of global supply chains (https://www.kcg-kiel.org/research/). To facilitate efficient and effective knowledge exchange, the research team plans to regularly meet each other to share their research results […]

Guli-Sanam Karimova Joined the KCG

1st December 2016
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Guli-Sanam Karimova joined the Kiel Centre for Globalization in December 2016 as a PhD researcher. She completed her Bachelor studies in Economics at the National University of Uzbekistan in Tashkent. She then studied for a Master's degree in Economics with a focus on business studies and particularly marketing and information management at the University of Kassel. After obtaining her Master’s degree in Economics she got her second Master’s degree in Philosophy. During her Master's studies, she worked as a student assistant at the Institute for Corporate Ethics and Economics at the University of Kassel.[…]

KCG Studies about Standards along the Global Supply Chains

24th November 2016
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A new KCG study (Görg et al., forthcoming) addressing multinational enterprises (MNEs) with production sites in Africa shows that MNEs are indeed able to influence the working and production conditions of their suppliers in Africa, if the MNEs are motivated to do so. For example, production conditions of MNEs are found to be established in a more sustainable way in Africa, if their products were exported to developed countries such as to Europe or the USA, compared to having been exported to less developed countries like China[…]



A Recent KN Report on KCG

17th November 2016
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With the official start of the Kiel Centre for Globalisation (KCG), the Kieler Nachrichten (KN) recently published a report on the research focus and the planned activities of the KCG based on an interview with Prof. Holger Görg. As emphasised by Prof. Görg, over the past decades of globalisation some people have won but others have lost and there have been some undesirable side effects. Thus, the main focus of the KCG is not only to gain more insights into how globalisation actually has worked but also how trade and global division of labour can be arranged in a more sustainable and fairer way in the future[…]

Quality FDI Matters for Economic Development and Growth

16th November 2016
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“The Vienna Investment Conference: Quality FDI, Development and Growth” which was co-organized by UNIDO as well as Holger Görg and his team at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy took place in mid-September in Vienna, Austria. At the conference, the Director General of UNIDO Yong Li emphasized that “Quality FDI is a key driver for growth of domestic enterprises and improvement of the overall investment climate, provided the right policies and incentives are […]

Finn Ole Semrau Joined the KCG

3rd November 2016
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In October Finn Ole Semrau started his work as a PhD researcher at the Kiel Centre for Globalization. He obtained his master’s degree in Economics at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel. During his studies he worked for the Kiel Institute for the World Economy as a student assistant and gained international research experience with a research stay at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. His research interests are the impact of globalisation on sustainable world […]

Thilo Kroeger Joined the KCG

3rd November 2016
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Thilo Kroeger joined the Kiel Centre for Globalization in October 2016 as PhD Researcher. Previously, he obtained a double Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Mannheim and Stockholm University specialising in Industrial Organization, particularly Competition Economics, and International Economics. Having completed his Bachelor studies at Kiel University with a stay abroad at the University of Glasgow he returned in fall 2016 to participate in the doctoral programme Quantitative Economics.[…]