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Kiel Institute Research Seminar by Finn Ole Semrau on Firms’ Global Value Chain Positioning and Clean Production

17th January 2022
KCG Secretary
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How to improve sustainability in global value chains (GVCs) is a key question that has been intensively addressed not only in coordinated multinational efforts like G20 but also by national policy engagement like Germany’s Supply Chain Law. Many firms and actors have been involved in GVCs to produce goods and services for the world demand. They have been responsible for specific tasks along the GVCs. Due to firms’ different GVC positions, they may be confronted with challenges to different extents while being required to improve, for example, their environmental performance to help achieve higher environmental sustainability in GVCs[...]

Görg Gave an Interview on the Impact of China’s 20-year WTO Membership and on China-Germany Economic Relations

13th January 2022
KCG Secretary
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In late 2021, China celebrated the 20th anniversary of its WTO membership. On December 11, 2001 China became the 143rd member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) after a long-lasting negotiation process and large-scale economic reforms to fulfil the accession requirements. Through China’s WTO accession, it became – formally and institutionally – an important part of the multilateral trading system[...]

FGI 2021 on Global Production Networks for Sustainability on Dec. 6, 2021: Open for Registration

30th November 2021
KCG Secretary
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The COVID-19 pandemic has strongly impacted global production networks. It has brought to the forefront a sense of urgency for governments and internationally operating enterprises to re-evaluate their approaches towards ensuring resilience and sustainability in their supply chains. At the same time it offers a unique opportunity to re-think established approaches, to embrace sustainability as a core value creator, and to link long-term recovery strategies to the guiding principles and objectives of the UN Agenda 2030[...]

Aoife Hanley discusses Chances and Challenges of China’s Energy Transition for German SMEs

8th November 2021
KCG Secretary
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According to the Paris Agreement negotiated at the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP21, in 2015 and signed afterwards, the countries involved are expected to give updated national pledges every five years to enhance their nationally determined contributions to help limit the greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change. First such official updates are thus expected at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26, that is currently held in Glasgow in United Kingdom[...]

KCG Researchers Analyse the Impact of Maritime Piracy on Trade and Transport

26th October 2021
KCG Secretary
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Maritime shipping has attracted much more attention from the public and politics since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Global supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic, shipping accidents like the Suez Canal grounding of the Ever Given and the recently increasingly severe supply shortages have all induced many to question the reliability of maritime shipping and the impact of shipping disruptions or disturbances on trade[...]

KCG Seminar by Julian Hinz on Frictions to intranational investment on Sep. 21, 2021

13th September 2021
KCG Secretary
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There has been much research evidence showing that geographical and cultural distances have played a negative role for firms’ internationalization or, more concretely, their engagement in investments abroad. Comparably less attention has been paid to the nexus between geographical and cultural distances and intranational investments. Although such geographical and cultural distances within a country are probably much smaller, this does not necessarily mean that they could not play a likewise critical role in determining firms’ intranational investments decisions and thus affecting the allocation efficiency of capital[...]

Kiel Week 2021 Presentations by KCG Researchers about Supply Chain Law, CO2 Border Adjustment and Global Coffee Trade

3rd September 2021
KCG Secretary
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On the coming Saturday the Kiel Week 2021, in its 140th year, will officially start. The Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a founding institute of the Kiel Centre for Globalization, will again offer public presentations on various economics topics based on its current research work. There will be four such Kiel Week 2021 presentations provided by the Kiel Institute and three of them will be given by KCG researchers[...]

August 17, 2021: Seminar by Sonali Chowdhry on Firm-specific Determinants of the Invoicing Currency Choice in International Trade

16th August 2021
KCG Secretary
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Sonali Chowdhry
Research macroeconomic analysis by Boz et al. (2021) finds an overall stability of invoicing currency patterns in global trade and a further dominant role the US dollar in this regard. Despite the general stability of invoicing currency patterns, they find an increasing use of the Euro as invoicing currency for trade in some European and African countries[...]

Upcoming KCG Seminar by Victor Gimenez-Perales on Importer-Exporter Connections

9th August 2021
KCG Secretary
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With the gradual liberalization trend of the international trade and with the strong technological progress in transportation, information and communication, it has been much less costly for firms to procure resources and intermediate goods needed for better prices abroad, and to sell their products globally. As a result, global value chains (GVCs) have been quickly developed and extended since the 1990s[...]