Kiel Focus: “Germany’s Planned China Strategy Is the Wrong Approach”

26th January 2023
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How should we engage with China? That question is currently being widely debated. Just a decade ago, the EU and China concluded the EU–China 2020 Strategic Agenda for Cooperation, which aimed at promoting a wide-ranging strategic partnership involving broad-based bilateral cooperation across a variety of areas. Although frequently modified, long-term cooperation was the foundation of bilateral relations between the partners[...]

Görg: “The Supply Chain Law has become a Bureaucracy Monster”

2nd January 2023
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Prof. Holger Görg, Ph.D. (President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy & Managing Director of Kiel Centre for Globalization) comments on the Supply Chain Due Diligence Act, which comes into force on January 1, 2023.
"The Law has become a bureaucracy monster that neither promotes its acceptance among the companies affected nor has much to do with the basic idea of the Law. Companies with more than 3,000 employees currently have to slog through and answer a 400-question catalog from the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control[...]

KCG Involved in a New Large-scale Research Project on Global Supply Chains

5th December 2022
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A research team at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy led by Prof. Holger Görg, Ph.D. (Acting President at the Kiel Institute and KCG Managing Director) has received a new grant of almost three million euros from the EU’s Horizon Europe Program for a major EU research project: “Rethinking Global Supply Chains: Measurement, Impact and Policy (RETHINK-GSC)”. KCG (external) researchers, Prof. Dr. Julian Hinz, Saskia Meuchelböck and Dr. Birgit Meyer, are also involved in the project[...]

2022 Forum on Globalization and Industrialization Open for Registration

29th November 2022
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The 2022 Forum on Globalization and Industrialization (FGI) will take place under the theme “Sustainable Supply Chains in Times of Multiple Crises” in Vienna and online on December 6, 2022. FGI 2022 will bring together key stakeholders from policy and representatives from the private sector, academia and civil society to discuss sustainability in light of the energy crisis, changes in the global economic landscape and heterogeneity in global trade regulation which governs sustainability-related issues[...]

Julian Hinz will Discuss the African Continental Free Trade Agreement at the 3D Seminar this Thursday

22nd November 2022
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Prof. Dr. Julian Hinz (KCG, Kiel Institute and Bielefeld University) will attend the next Digital Development Dialogue (3D) Seminar on Nov. 24, 2022 to discuss the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) and whether it would be a boon or bane for the continent. About three and a half years ago, AfCFTA entered into force. The agreement was often considered as an important milestone on the continent’s way towards trade liberalization[...]

Görg on G20: “The Fine Words Must Now Finally be Followed by Action.”

21st November 2022
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In 2008 the G20 Summit was held for the first time in response to the worldwide financial and economic crisis. Since then the G20 Summit was held annually. The latest G20 Summit took place in Bali, Indonesia on Nov. 15-16, 2022. The G20 shall serve as a crucial forum for fostering global economic cooperation. The multidimensional crises and rising protectionism, and geopolitical tensions particularly in the recent past have posed a serious challenge to the G20, its functionality and its relevance for global governance[...]

Lars Hecker Joins KCG as a Research Fellow

4th October 2022
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On September 15th, Lars Hecker joined the KCG as a Research Fellow. He is also a doctoral researcher in the Research Centre “Innovation and International Competition” at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. He will be involved in projects in the "Kiel Institute Africa Initiative" and will work on studies related to the growth of African companies in terms of their foreign trade performance and use of technology[...]

Görg Emphasised “German Companies Must Continue to Innovate” in a new GTAI Export Analysis

15th September 2022
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Against the background of a continuously rising global market competition, Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI) published its new export analysis on September 9, 2022 to provide an up-to-date overview of German exporters’ competitiveness in an international comparison. The report focuses on Germany’s four leading sectors, incl. mechanical engineering, automotive, chemicals and the electronics/digital industry. It aims at analyzing[...]

A New Kiel Study on Trade and Welfare Impacts of Decoupling Gives Lessons for the Current Conflict between Russia and the West

14th March 2022
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With ever-increasing political tensions between China and Russia on one side and the EU and the US on the other, it only seems a matter of time until protectionist policies cause a decoupling of global value chains. How would such a decoupling affect trade and welfare of countries and regions directly involved and the rest of the world is examined in a new study from Prof. Dr. Gabriel Felbermayr (Austrian Institute of Economic Research and KCG), Hendrik Mahlkow (Kiel Institute for the World Economy) and Prof. Dr. Alexander Sandkamp (Kiel Institute, Kiel University and KCG)[...]