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Dr. Birgit Meyer

KCG External Research Fellow
Institute for International Economics
Vienna University of Economics and Business
Email: Birgit.meyer@wu.ac.at

Research Interests:

  • Impact of Globalization
  • Activities of Multinational Enterprises
  • Foreign Direct Investment
  • Trade Facilitation
  • Economic Development and Foreign Aid

KCG Involved in a New Large-scale Research Project on Global Supply Chains

5th December 2022
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A research team at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy led by Prof. Holger Görg, Ph.D. (Acting President at the Kiel Institute and KCG Managing Director) has received a new grant of almost three million euros from the EU’s Horizon Europe Program for a major EU research project: “Rethinking Global Supply Chains: Measurement, Impact and Policy (RETHINK-GSC)”. KCG (external) researchers, Prof. Dr. Julian Hinz, Saskia Meuchelböck and Dr. Birgit Meyer, are also involved in the project[...]

Trade Recovery Requires Firm-specific Initiatives, Trade Policies and Global Collaboration

9th June 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the global value chains (GVCs) substantially as it struck at their core regions, including China, Europe and the United States (Seric et al., 2020). According to a recent estimate of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) the merchandise trade volume worldwide would fall by between 13% to 32% in 2020. It is highly likely that the COVID-19 determined decline in world trade will be more substantial than the historical trade fall brought by the global financial crisis more than ten years ago[...]

KCG Researchers Gave Presentations at the Annual Conference of the European Trade Study Group

11th November 2019
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KCG’s thematic focus has been to work on an interdisciplinary research agenda that evaluates the proliferation of global value chains (GVCs) as an important aspect of globalization. As a matter of course, trade and related research issues belong to KCG’s priority research topics. To share the research insights obtained and exchange knowledge with other trade experts, KCG researchers actively attended international trade workshops and conferences, incl. the Annual Conference of the European Trade Study Group (ETSG) – one of the large-scale trade conferences worldwide. The ETSG Conference provides a forum for discussion and research on international trade and attracts economists and experts interested in trade related issues from universities and research institutes over the world[...]

KCG Researchers Gave Presentations at the Second HSU-IfW-Workshop in Development and Environmental Economics

25th July 2019
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KCG Researchers Prof. Gabriel Felbermayr, Ph.D., Prof. Holger Görg, Ph.D., Dr. Birgit Meyer, Finn Ole Semrau and Frauke Steglich joined the second HSU-IfW-Workshop in Development and Environmental Economics, which took place on June 7, 2019 at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) in Kiel, Germany. The HSU-IfW-Workshop in Development Economics and Environmental Economics, which was co-organized by IfW and the Helmut Schmidt University[…]

KCG Researchers Contributed to a New UNIDO Report on Global Value Chains with Focus on Asia

16th August 2018
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The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) recently published a new report “Global Value Chains (GVCs) and Industrial Development – Lessons from China, South-East and South Asia” to provide evidence on the evolution of global and regional value chains in Asia. From the Asian lessons policy suggestions are derived to support firms’ and countries’ participation in GVCs and encourage their upgrading over time[…]

Dr. Birgit Meyer is Visiting KCG

26th July 2018
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Dr. Birgit Meyer, Assistant Professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and KCG External Research Fellow, currently has her research visit at KCG. She will stay at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy until August 10, 2018. Before she joined the Vienna University[…]

External Research Fellows Join the KCG

27th July 2017
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Nine excellent researchers from different universities and research organizations join the KCG as External Research Fellows: Prof. Alexander Wright Cappelen Ph.D. (Norwegian School of Economics, Norway), Prof. Sourafel Girma Ph.D. (University of Nottingham, UK), Prof. Dr. Stephan Kroll (Colorado State University, US), Dr. Michael Lee (University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand), Dr. Birgit Meyer (University of Vienna, Austria), Prof. Dr. Philipp M. Richter (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany), Adnan Seric Ph.D. (UNIDO, Austria), Prof. Ulrich Wagner Ph.D. (University of Mannheim, […]



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Cross-cultural differences in the perception of corporate social responsibility and consumer social responsibility along global supply chains Experimental studies of moral responsibility in global supply chains
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