Publications

Holger Görg Gave a Talk on Globalization at the German Council of Economic Experts

28th April 2017
KCG Secretary
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Prof. Holger Görg Ph.D., KCG Managing Director, was invited to give a presentation on globalization at the German Council of Economic Experts (Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung) on April 27, 2017 in Wiesbaden. His talk aimed at providing research-based evidence to an important question of whether globalization is rather a boon or a bane for Germany[…]

KCG Working Paper No.2: Firms’ Global Engagement and Management Practices

27th April 2017
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Working Papers
Working Papers
Authors: Holger Görg and Aoife Hanley

We investigate whether firms’ "global engagement", either in the form of exporting or opening up affiliates abroad, is related to the change in their management performance. We use new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of management practices in Germany. We calculate management scores for firms as in Bloom et al. (2013), which indicate how structured management is in a given firm .[…]

KCG Introduced in Recently Published IfW Highlights 2016

20th April 2017
KCG Secretary
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Kiel Centre for Globalization (KCG) is a project jointly initiated by the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW). With its kick-off in October 2016, the research team has expanded to a 17-researcher team which has since intensively worked on four interrelated research projects dealing with different aspects of the global supply chains (https://www.kcg-kiel.org/research/). As one of the selected highlights of the IfW, KCG and its activities are introduced in the recently published issue of IfW Highlights. […]

Ludger Heidbrink and Guli-Sanam Karimova Joined National Conference on Sustainable Consumption in Berlin

30th March 2017
KCG Secretary
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National Conference on Sustainable Consumption initiated by the German Federal Government took place on March 23rd in Berlin. The Conference aimed at encouraging public discussions among key stakeholders and experts from academia, NGOs, business and politics to collect valuable feedback and suggestions for the newly adopted National Program on Sustainable Consumption in Germany. Ludger Heidbrink and Guli-Sanam Karimova joined the conference to gain more insights into the topic of sustainable consumption that is relevant for a current KCG research project […]