Haiou Mao, Ph. D.

KCG External Research Fellow
China Institute of  Boundary and Ocean Studies
Wuhan University
Email: maohaiou77@163.com

Research Interests:

    • Global Value Chains
    • Firm Innovation
    • Regional Integration
    • Multinational Enterprises

Today: KCG Seminar on Role of Foreign Divestment for China’s Innovation Edge by Holger Görg

16th March 2021
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) is often seen as being advantageous for fostering the economic development of host countries. Since investors bring in not only financial capital as well as know-how and technologies, FDI is also considered to be able to support firms and countries receiving FDI to deal with financial and technological difficulties in innovation activities[...]

Friends like this: The Impact of the US – China Trade War on Global Value Chains

8th June 2020
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Authors: Holger Görg and Haiou Mao (The World Economy, Vol. 43(7), 1776-1791)

This paper considers the indirect impact the recent tariff increases between the US and China can have in third countries through links in global supply chains. We combine data from inputoutput relationships, imports and tariffs, to calculate the impact of the tariff increases by both the US and China on cumulative tariffs for other countries and thus hurt trade partners further downstream in global supply chains[...]