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Dr. Léa Marchal

Fellow, Kiel Centre for Globalization
Assistant professor (Maître de conférences)
Pantheon-Sorbonne University and Centre d’Économie de la Sorbonne

Maison des Sciences Économiques
106-112 Boulevard de l’Hôpital
75647 Paris Cedex 13
France
Email: lea.marchal@univ-paris1.fr

Research Interests:

  • International Trade and Heterogeneous Firms
  • International Migration
  • Micro-economics

Dr. Clément Nedoncelle (INRAE) is Visiting KCG

4th March 2020
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Dr. Clément Nedoncelle (INRAE) is Visiting KCG
Dr. Clément Nedoncelle, Researcher at the INRAE-Economie Publique and AgroParisTech , is visiting KCG and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy from March to December 2020. Nedoncelle is an experienced economist with research interests in international trade and its interactions with environmental and agricultural outcomes. He will give a KCG Seminar  titled “Exporters under Heat” on March 27, 2020 at the Kiel Institute[...]

KCG Researchers Gave Presentations at the Aarhus-Kiel Workshop 2019

27th December 2019
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The Aarhus-Kiel Workshop is an annual research workshop, jointly organized by the Research Centre for Firms and Industry Dynamics at the Aarhus University and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in cooperation with KCG. It serves as an excellent platform for scholars from Aarhus and Kiel who are specialised in globalization research to present and discuss research (in progress) with other experts in the field[...]

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[...]

Immigrants, Occupations and Firm Export Performance

16th July 2019
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Authors: Léa Marchal and Clément Nedoncelle (Review of International Economics, 2019, Vol. 27(5), 1480-1509)

We investigate the export-enhancing effect of foreign workers at the firm level. We first develop a theoretical framework of heterogeneous firms, assuming that foreign workers allow for productivity gains and convey valuable information on foreign[…]

KCG Researchers Contributed to a BMF Research Project on FDI and the German Current Account

4th April 2019
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KCG Researchers, Prof. Holger Görg, Ph.D., Cecília Hornok, Ph.D, and Dr. Léa Marchal, worked on a joint research project titled “On the Economic Relevance of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) and their Role for the German Current Account Balance” with the Forecasting Centre  at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. The project was financially supported by the German Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF)  from October 2017 to March 2018. With project members from both KCG and the Forecasting Centre, the team was able to investigate the economic relevance of German FDI from both macro- and microeconomic perspectives[…]

How Borrowing Constraints Hinder Migration: Theoretical Insights from a RUM Model

2nd April 2019
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Authors: Léa Marchal and Claire Naiditch (Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2020, Vol. 122(2), 732-761)

We provide a theoretical framework to analyze how financial constraints hinder migration. Introducing wealth heterogeneity and borrowing constraints into a RUM model of migration, we find evidence of multilateral resistance to migration stemming from borrowing constraints[…]

Die Effekte deutscher Direktinvestitionen im Empfängerland vor dem Hintergrund des Leistungsbilanzüberschusses: Empirische Evidenz mit Mikrodaten für Frankreich

21st February 2019
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Autoren: Holger Görg und Léa Marchal (Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 2019, Band 20, Heft 1, 53-69)

Deutschland hat seit Jahren einen Leistungsbilanzüberschuss, der international kritisiert wird. Die Bedeutung der deutschen Direktinvestitionen im Ausland ist dabei in den letzten Jahren stark angestiegen. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersucht diese Studie die Effekte von Direktinvestitionen auf Unternehmen im Gastland. Dazu werden Unternehmensdaten für Frankreich verwendet. Insgesamt liefert die Studie zwei wirtschaftspolitisch relevante Ergebnisse. Zum einen haben deutsche Übernahmen von französischen Unternehmen im Durchschnitt keine negativen Auswirkungen auf Produktivität, Qualifikationsstruktur und Handelsaktivität der übernommenen Unternehmen. Zum anderen zeigt sich[…]

KCG Researchers Joined the HSU-IfW-Workshop in Development and Environmental Economics

10th December 2018
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KCG PhD researchers Finn Ole Semrau and Frauke Steglich participated in the first joint workshop in Development and Environmental Economics co-organized by the Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg (HSU) and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW). The HSU-IfW-Workshop took place on November 22-23, 2018 at HSU in Hamburg, Germany. It aimed at bringing together researchers from both institutions to discuss research in economics in general and in development and environmental economics in particular[…]

Léa Marchal will Visit the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) in Paris

27th September 2018
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Dr. Léa Marchal, KCG Research Fellow and a post-doctoral research fellow at the Bielefeld University and at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, will visit the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) in Paris from October 16 to November 30, 2018[…]


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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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