China: A Key Player in the World Economy and a Key Research Region of KCG

26th January 2017
KCG Secretary
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It’s time to look at China – but not just because of the coming Chinese New Year. China is nowadays the second largest economy in the world. It has also been intensively integrated into the world economy over the past decades of economic reforms and became a crucial part of the global supply chains. Needless to say, its economic reforms opened the door towards the world economy and brought China new opportunities to grow rapidly over time. China has profited substantially from the intensifying globalisation during the past decades. At the same time it has strongly gained in importance in co-influencing the past and future development of the globalisation. […]

Different but Complementary Research Methods are Key for KCG Interdisciplinary Research

19th January 2017
KCG Secretary
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The Kiel Centre for Globalization (KCG) works on an interdisciplinary research agenda that evaluates the proliferation of global supply chains as an important aspect of globalization. In doing so, it builds a research team consisting of researchers from different disciplines such as economics, ethics, management science and philosophy. The KCG researchers possess discipline-specific knowledge and apply different but complementary research methods for analysis.[…]

Local Coordinator Meetings for Knowledge Exchange among Leibniz ScienceCampi in Kiel

12th January 2017
KCG Secretary
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The Leibniz Association currently financially supports 19 Leibniz ScienceCampi. Three of them are located in Kiel: EvoLUNG, Kiel Centre for Globalization (KCG), and Kiel Science Outreach Campus (KiSOC). All three Kiel Leibniz ScienceCampi just started in 2016. To facilitate knowledge exchange and to share lessons and best practices in coordinating campus-related activities with each other, the coordinators of the three Kiel Leibniz ScienceCampi decided to have regular meetings to make such exchange possible.[…]

FDI, Involvement in Global Supply Chains and Host Country Development

5th January 2017
KCG Secretary
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Over the past decade there were a rising number of firm-level empirical studies investigating direct and indirect effects of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on domestic firms and, more generally, economic development in different host countries. The strong increase in the number of related firm-level studies can be particularly attributable to the substantial progress made in the “New” new trade theory since the beginning of the 21st century on the one hand and to the availability of large-scale firm-level datasets and the development in advanced analytical tools required over the past years on the other hand[…]

Merits of Financial Market Development for Developing Countries

30th December 2016
KCG Secretary
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Financial market development has its impact on economic development wide beyond national boundaries. Here multinational enterprises (MNEs) play a crucial role. Recent empirical studies carried out by Görg and Kersting (2016) and Donaubauer et al. (2016) found, among others, that:

Well-developed financial markets, either in source or host countries, foster bilateral foreign direct investment. Well-developed financial markets in source countries compensate for poorly developed financial systems […]

KCG Kick-off Meeting Held on December 9th, 2016

15th December 2016
KCG Secretary
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The Kiel Centre for Globalization (KCG) is a joint initiative of Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel and Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Its interdisciplinary research team currently works on four interrelated research projects to investigate various selected aspects of global supply chains (https://www.kcg-kiel.org/research/). To facilitate efficient and effective knowledge exchange, the research team plans to regularly meet each other to share their research results […]

Guli-Sanam Karimova Joined the KCG

1st December 2016
KCG Secretary
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Guli-Sanam Karimova joined the Kiel Centre for Globalization in December 2016 as a PhD researcher. She completed her Bachelor studies in Economics at the National University of Uzbekistan in Tashkent. She then studied for a Master's degree in Economics with a focus on business studies and particularly marketing and information management at the University of Kassel. After obtaining her Master’s degree in Economics she got her second Master’s degree in Philosophy. During her Master's studies, she worked as a student assistant at the Institute for Corporate Ethics and Economics at the University of Kassel.[…]

KCG Studies about Standards along the Global Supply Chains

24th November 2016
KCG Secretary
A new KCG study (Görg et al., forthcoming) addressing multinational enterprises (MNEs) with production sites in Africa shows that MNEs are indeed able to influence the working and production conditions of their suppliers in Africa, if the MNEs are motivated to do so. For example, production conditions of MNEs are found to be established in a more sustainable way in Africa, if their products were exported to developed countries such as to Europe or the USA, compared to having been exported to less developed countries like China[…]



A Recent KN Report on KCG

17th November 2016
KCG Secretary
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With the official start of the Kiel Centre for Globalisation (KCG), the Kieler Nachrichten (KN) recently published a report on the research focus and the planned activities of the KCG based on an interview with Prof. Holger Görg. As emphasised by Prof. Görg, over the past decades of globalisation some people have won but others have lost and there have been some undesirable side effects. Thus, the main focus of the KCG is not only to gain more insights into how globalisation actually has worked but also how trade and global division of labour can be arranged in a more sustainable and fairer way in the future[…]