Prof. Dr. Alexander Sandkamp

Assistant Professor for Quantitative Trade Policy, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel
Senior Researcher of “Trade Policy Task Force”, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Email: alexander.sandkamp@ifw-kiel.de
Tel.: +49(0)431-8814-225

Expertise:

  • International Trade Policy
  • China
  • Gravity Analysis

Different antidumping legislations within the WTO: What can we learn from China’s varying market economy status?

6th April 2021
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Authors: Alexander Sandkamp, Erdal Yalcin (Review of International Economics, online published)
This paper examines how varying antidumping methodologies applied within the World Trade Organization differ in the extent to which they reduce targeted exports. We show that antidumping duties, on average, hit Chinese exporters harder than those of other targeted countries[...]

A New Kiel Institute Study Shows Protectionist Measures against Global Supply Chains Harm All

1st March 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic is a huge challenge for all aspects of human lives – locally, nationally but also globally. With respect to the global economy, the COVIC-19 pandemic has clearly demonstrated how
vulnerable global supply chains can be in the face of global shocks. The severe pandemic-determined global supply chain disruptions particularly in the first half year of 2020 has triggered political and public discussions worldwide about whether there is increasing national need for economic self-sufficiency and about the role of potential business reshoring in this regard. There have been also such debates and discussions in Germany[...]

The Trade Effects of Anti-Dumping Duties: Firm-level Evidence from China

10th July 2020
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Authors: Gabriel Felbermayr, and Alexander Sandkamp (European Economic Review, Vol. 122, Feb. 2020, 103367)
This paper uses Chinese customs data to investigate the trade effects of anti-dumping (AD) policies. Merging firm-level exports to firm-specific AD duties, we exploit differences across firms within products. This reduces endogeneity concerns which have plagued earlier research[...]

European Parliament Study on EU-China Trade and Investment Relations by BRUEGEL and IfW Available Online

2nd July 2020
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European flags
On July 1 Germany took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the next six months. Under the overarching objective “Together for Europe’s Recovery”, Germany aims at working with all EU Member States to jointly overcome the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, to support Europe’s economic recovery, to encourage innovation, social cohesion, solidarity and sustainability in Europe, to strengthen the European community of law and values as well as to further strengthen Europe’s role in dealing with global affairs (German Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2020)[...]