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KCG Seminar by Joschka Wanner on International Trade, Climate Policy, and Carbon Leakage

6th March 2018
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The next KCG Research Seminar will be given by Joschka Wanner, Research Fellow at the University of Bayreuth, on March 12, 2018 (Monday) at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. His presentation is based on one of his current papers “International Trade, Uni- and Multilateral Climate Policy, and Carbon Leakage”. This paper aims at investigating the international effects of different climate policies on trade, welfare and carbon emissions. A gravity model is developed for this purpose and is used as base for an empirical analysis. This paper deals with a topic related to the KCG project “Global Supply Chains, Environmental Regulation and Green Innovation[…]

KCG Research Seminar by Aoife Hanley on Global Value Chains and the Relevance of Honesty in a Post Block-Chain World

1st March 2018
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The fourth KCG Research Seminar will take place in the Lecture Hall at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy on March 6, 2018 (Tuesday). Prof. Aoife Hanley, Ph.D., Co-head of the KCG Project “Global Supply Chains, Environmental Regulation and Green Innovation” will give a presentation based on her research paper “Global Value Chains: Should Honesty (not Hypocrisy) Pay in a Post Block-Chain World?”, co-authored with Prof. Holger Görg, Ph.D. (CAU Kiel, IfW and KCG) and Dr. Adnan Seric (KCG and UNIDO)[…]

Tweets Analysed by Julian Hinz to Quantify Language Effect on Trade

26th February 2018
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Dr. Julian Hinz, KCG PostDoc Researcher, gave a presentation “Now We’re Talking: Quantifying the Effect of Languages on Trade with 2 billion Tweets” at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy at the beginning of February, 2018. The presentation was based on an ongoing study carried out by himself and his co-author Dr. Elsa Leromain from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)[…]

Holger Görg Joined the KAS-BKU Expert Conference “Grenzen des Handel(n)s (Limits to Trade/Action)” as a Panelist in January

15th February 2018
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Prof. Holger Görg, Ph.D., Managing Director of the Kiel Centre for Globalization was invited to be a panelist at the 11th KAS-BKU Expert Conference of Development and Economics on January 26-27, 2018 in Bonn. The overarching topic of the Expert Conference this year was “Grenzen des Handel(n)s (Limits to Trade/Action)”. The Conference started with opening remarks by Prof. Dr. Dr. Ulrich Hemel (Chairman of BKU) and Dr. Peter Fischer-Bollin (Deputy Head of the Dept. “European and International Cooperation” at KAS), followed by speeches and three panel sessions[…]

Leibniz President Matthias Kleiner visited Kiel Centre for Globalization

1st February 2018
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Prof. Dr. Matthias Kleiner, President of the Leibniz Association, visited Leibniz ScienceCampi in Kiel on Jan. 31, 2018. His visit started with two morning meetings with Prof. Dr. Sonja Peterson, Scientific Director of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, and most of the research members of the Kiel Centre for Globalization led by Prof. Holger Görg, Ph.D., KCG Managing Director. Prof. Kleiner was accompanied by Dr. Bettina Böhm (Secretary-General), Dr. Kristina Hahn (Advisor) and Dr. Felix Kießling (Advisor) for visiting KCG […]

KCG’s PhD students participated in a week-long seminar on “International Trade: Monopolistic Competition and Gravity”

11th January 2018
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In the second week of December 2017 Professor Dennis Novy from the University of Warwick, UK, visited the Kiel Institute and taught an advanced course on “International Trade: Monopolistic Competition and Gravity”. KCG’s PhD researchers Thilo Kroeger and Frauke Steglich participated in this course, which was part of the Kiel Institute’s Advanced Studies Program in International Economic Policy Research (ASP)[…]

Holger Görg Gave a Radio Interview on Brexit and the Irish Border

21st December 2017
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The Brexit talks between the UK and the European Commission stalled early this month on the issue of a post-Brexit border between the Republic of Ireland and Northerd Ireland. While both parties in the talks agreed that a hard border should be avoided, how this is to achieve after the UK leaves the EU’s single market and customs union remains debated[…]