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KCG External Research Fellow Michael Lee Visits Kiel

29th November 2018
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Dr. Michael Lee, Senior Lecturer of Marketing at the University of Auckland Business School and KCG External Research Fellow, visits the University of Kiel (CAU) and KCG in the last November week of 2018. His research focusses on brand avoidance, consumer resistance and activism, and, most notably, anti-consumption. He is also Director of the well-known International Centre of Anti-Consumption Research (ICAR) at the University of Auckland. Lee’s research topics are closely[…]

KCG Researcher Gave a Presentation at the Mainz FDI Workshop

23rd November 2018
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KCG PhD Researcher Frauke Steglich joined the fourth Mainz Workshop on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Multinational Corporations on November 15-16 in Mainz, Germany. The workshop aimed at better understanding the role of FDI and multinationals in the world economy and its interactions with politics and institutions from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Prof. Dr. Carolina Villegas-Sanchez from the ESADE Business School Barcelona gave the keynote speech of the workshop[…]

KCG Researchers Joined the 2018 ICAR Symposium “Anti-Consumption – beyond Boundaries” in Spain

15th November 2018
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The 2018 ICAR Symposium with the overarching theme “Anti-Consumption – beyond boundaries” took place on November 9-10, 2018 in Almería, Spain. ICAR, the International Centre of Anti-Consumption, is a network hosted by the University of Auckland (New Zealand) and led by Dr. Michael Lee, KCG External Research Fellow. It is a network of academics, practitioners, and social scientists from different countries who are interested in investigating and better understanding anti-consumption. Lee did not only co-organise the symposium with colleagues from the University of Almería but also gave a presentation based on his current research concerning choice overload and consumers’ boycott behaviour[…]

Trade for Development? A New KCG Research Project Focusing on Ghana

9th November 2018
KCG Secretary
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The Aid for Trade (AfT) Initiative of the World Trade Organisation aims at supporting developing countries to better deal with trade-related constraints and barriers so that they can be better integrated into the world economy through their engagement in international trade. A key principle behind the AfT Initiative is that free and fair trade can make significant contributions to the economic development and poverty reduction in the developing and emerging countries. Many industrialised countries have initiated new policy measures and/or adjusted the existing ones to support the implementation of the AfT Initiative. One example is Germany[…]

KCG Policy Paper No. 4: China between External Pressure and Domestic Policy Reforms: In Search of a Balance

11th October 2018
KCG Secretary
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Authors: Rolf J. Langhammer and Wan-Hsin Liu

It was probably a combination of the objective of a constructive response to external headwind from the United States (US) and to some extent also from the European Union (EU) as concerns China’s investment and trade policies on the one hand and the intrinsic insight that opening up the investment and trade sector in China […]