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The KCG has various series of publications to provide research findings and policy implications to different interested groups, e.g., students, academics, policy makers and the public.

Special Economic Zones Policies Contribute to Urbanization and Inclusive Growth in Africa

1st July 2025
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Fishing boats on the shore of Cape Coast, Ghana
There has been an increasing number of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in Africa since the early 1990s. While there were only around 20 SEZs in the early 1990s in Africa, the number amounted to more than 200 zones all over Africa in 2021. These zones are established to “promote local economic development and reduce regional disparities” (Abagna et al., 2025: 1). In policy debates and academic research, little attention has been paid so far to the impact of SEZ on the households’ welfare development in Africa[...]

Bring the boys back home: The impact of foreign divestments on local firms

27th June 2025
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Authors: Holger Görg, Haiou Mao, Nigel Driffield (The World Economy, forthcoming)

Divestments by foreign multinationals are an important phenomenon that is largely neglected in the literature. We use firm level panel data from China to estimate the impact of such divestments on the performance of domestic firms in the local economy. To the best of our knowledge, there is no empirical study that has looked at these effects[...]

RETHINK-GSC: Policy Proposal to Mitigate Threats to Knowledge Spillovers through Global Supply Chains

23rd June 2025
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For economic development and innovation, knowledge transfer and spillovers are essential. Knowledge transfer and spillovers occur not only locally but also through global supply chains (GSC) and thus can benefit stakeholders and countries involved in the supply chains globally[...]

Trade Policy in Turbulent Times (in German)

24th March 2025
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Deutschland sieht sich massiven handelspolitischen Herausforderungen gegenüber. In den vergangenen Jahren ging es dabei vor allem um den Umgang mit China hinsichtlich der Reduzierung von Abhängigkeiten sowohl auf der Export- als auch auf der Importseite. Seit der Amtsübernahme des neuen US-Präsidenten Donald Trump ist jedoch auch klar, dass die Handelsbeziehungen mit den USA wegen angekündigter Zölle und dem damit verbundenen Angriff auf die globale Handelsordnung zunehmend problematisch werden. Das alles findet vor dem Hintergrund einer Wachstumsschwäche der deutschen Wirtschaft statt[...]

“Sustainable Global Supply Chains” Annual Report 2024: Decent Work in Global Supply Chains

24th March 2025
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The Annual Report 2024 brings together recent and timely research on “Decent Work in Global Supply Chains”. The report consists of 10 concise chapters, written by the hosts and members of the Research Network Sustainable Global Supply Chains, which distil the latest research on key issues related to achieving decent work and advancing labour standards in global supply chains. Central themes include the impacts of GVCs on decent work, how GVCs can be leveraged for better jobs, and the crucial role of local labour regimes—such as workers’ bargaining power — and structural transformation processes in shaping equitable outcomes[...]

How consumer animosity drives anti-consumption: A multi-country examination of social animosity

29th January 2025
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Authors: Tinka Krüger, Stefan Hoffmann, Ipek N. Nibat, Robert Mai, Olivier Trendel, Holger Görg, Wassili Lasarov (Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2024, 81: 103990)

In times of uncertainty, the study of consumer animosity and how it affects anti-consumption behavior becomes more important for both academics and practitioners. This study focuses on the social nature of boycotts and contributes to the literature by analyzing the influence of normative components[...]

How Importers Hedge Demand Uncertainty Through Dual Sourcing and Safety Inventory

29th January 2025
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Authors: Chris Muris, Horst Raff, Nicolas Schmitt and Frank Stähler (Canadian Journal of Economics, forthcoming)

We develop a dynamic model of inventory and trade to study how an importer may hedge demand uncertainty when importing involves an order lead time. We show that when the import cost is low, the importer optimally holds safety inventory, i.e., inventory of imported goods in excess of expected sales to deal with demand surges[...]

Two-Part Tariffs, Inventory Stockpiling, and the Bullwhip Effect

29th January 2025
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Authors: Qu, Zhan and Horst Raff (European Journal of Operational Research, 2023, 308 (1): 201–214)

We study how upstream producers can use two-part tariffs (2PTs) to dampen the bullwhip effect in storable-good supply chains subject to strategic inventory stockpiling by downstream buyers [...]

Digitalization Intensity and Extensive Margins of Exports in Manufacturing Firms from 27 EU Countries – Evidence from Kernel-Regularized Least Squares Regression

8th January 2025
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Authors: Joachim Wagner (Economic Analysis Letters, 2024, 4(1): 22–29)

The use of digital technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, or smart devices can be expected to go hand in hand with higher productivity and lower trade costs, and, therefore, to be positively related to export activities[...]

Chinese Agricultural Geographical Indications and Firms’ Export Quality

24th October 2024
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Authors: Haiou Mao and Holger Görg (Agricultural Economics, forthcoming)

GI is a rising policy in developing countries, which has been relatively neglected in the existing literature. This paper studies Chinese agricultural Geographical Indications and its impact on firms’ exports. [...]

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Cross-cultural differences in the perception of corporate social responsibility and consumer social responsibility along global supply chains
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Experimental studies of moral responsibility in global supply chains
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Modelling economic and social dimensions of global supply chains
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Global supply chains, environmental regulation and green innovation
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