Haiou Mao from the Wuhan University (China) is Visiting KCG as a Guest Researcher

15th March 2019
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Dr. Haiou Mao from the Wuhan University, China, is visiting KCG as a Postdoc Guest Researcher from March 1, 2019 to February 29, 2020. Mao as an awardee of a scholarship granted by the Sino-German Science Centre (Chinesisch-Deutsches Zentrum für Wissenschaftsförderung) plans to work on her project entitled “Foreign Divestment and Former Foreign Firm’s Innovation Performance”. In this research she will use Chinese firm-level data to investigate whether the divestment by foreign firms has a detrimental effect on the innovation[…]

KCG Research Seminar by Charles G. Ackah on Firm Responses to Electricity Shortages in Ghana

26th February 2019
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Within the framework of a joint project “How can Trade Contribute to Development? Micro-based Evidence for Ghana”, Dr. Charles G. Ackah (University of Ghana) will visit the Kiel Centre for Globalization (KCG) from February 26 to March 1, 2019. In addition to research meetings and discussions with the KCG project members, Prof. Holger Görg, Ph.D. (KCG Managing Director) and Cecilia Hornok, Ph.D. (KCG Fellow), Ackah will give a KCG research seminar based on his current paper “Productivity Losses and Firm Responses to Electricity Shortages: Evidence from Ghana”[…]

More Needs to be Done to Improve the Quality of Institutions in Africa for Development

8th February 2019
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On December 18, 2018 the Africa-Europe Forum with the overarching theme “Taking Cooperation to the Digital Age” took place in Vienna, Austria. At the Forum key decision makers from politics and business and other stakeholders from both Africa and Europe discussed about what should and can be done to foster both sides’ prosperity and competitiveness and to further intensify the bilateral relationships between the two continents in various economic and societal aspects. One key concluding remark of the Forum[…]

KCG Researcher Joined a Workshop on the World Development Report 2020

28th January 2019
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The World Development Report 2020 of the World Bank will address the topic of Global Value Chains (GVCs) and their role in economic development. The World Bank Group and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) organized a workshop in Berlin on January 18, 2019 to discuss the concept note of the report. During the event, numerous experts and representatives from international organizations, academia, politics, business and NGOs were given the opportunity to inspect the draft document and give their feedback to the authors. KCG Researcher, Cecília Hornok, Ph.D., also participated in the workshop as a discussant[…]

KCG Coordinator Joined the Annual Leibniz Coordinator Meeting

20th December 2018
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KCG Coordinator, Dr. Wan-Hsin Liu, joined the annual Leibniz Meeting of ScienceCampi Coordinators which took place on November 27, 2018 in Berlin. Participating in this meeting enabled the coordinators not only to receive up-to-date and direct information from the Leibniz Association, which is relevant for the general development of the ScienceCampi, but also to exchange knowledge and lessons with other coordinators of the about 19 Leibniz ScienceCampi. The discussions at the meeting this[…]

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[…]