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Dr. Frauke Steglich

Fellow, Kiel Centre for Globalization
Postdoc Researcher of Research Group “International Development”, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Research Fellow, German Institute for Global and Area Studies
Email: frauke.steglich@ifw-kiel.de
Tel.: +49 (0)431 8814-360

Research Interests:

  • Microeconometric Methods
  • Global Value Chains
  • Effects of Globalisation
  • Foreign Direct Investment

“Sustainable Global Supply Chains” Annual Report 2024: Decent Work in Global Supply Chains

24th March 2025
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The Annual Report 2024 brings together recent and timely research on “Decent Work in Global Supply Chains”. The report consists of 10 concise chapters, written by the hosts and members of the Research Network Sustainable Global Supply Chains, which distil the latest research on key issues related to achieving decent work and advancing labour standards in global supply chains. Central themes include the impacts of GVCs on decent work, how GVCs can be leveraged for better jobs, and the crucial role of local labour regimes—such as workers’ bargaining power — and structural transformation processes in shaping equitable outcomes[...]

New Kiel Study on Firm Impact of Due Diligence EU Legislation

21st September 2023
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A new study “The cumulative effect of due diligence EU legislation on SMEs” requested by the INTA Committee from the European Parliament from the KCG researchers, Aoife Hanley, Finn Ole Semrau, and Frauke Steglich, jointly with Rainer Thiele (Kiel Institute) is now published. The study addresses the expected impact of the EU’s Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)[...]

Open for conference registration: Advancing Sustainability of Critical Supply Chains in Developing Countries

18th September 2023
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On September 26 and 27, the Research Network Sustainable Global Supply Chains will organise a scientific conference “Advancing Sustainability of Critical Supply Chains in Developing Countries” at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (and online). This conference aims at discussing recent research related to sustainability in global supply chains, with a focus on impacts in developing countries[...]

Call for Papers: Advancing Sustainability of Critical Supply Chains in Developing Countries

30th June 2023
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The Research Network Sustainable Global Supply Chains will organise a scientific conference “Advancing Sustainability of Critical Supply Chains in Developing Countries” at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (and online) on September 26 and 27 this year[...]

FGI 2021 on Global Production Networks for Sustainability on Dec. 6, 2021: Open for Registration

30th November 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic has strongly impacted global production networks. It has brought to the forefront a sense of urgency for governments and internationally operating enterprises to re-evaluate their approaches towards ensuring resilience and sustainability in their supply chains. At the same time it offers a unique opportunity to re-think established approaches, to embrace sustainability as a core value creator, and to link long-term recovery strategies to the guiding principles and objectives of the UN Agenda 2030[...]

T20 Roundtable on June 4: Role of G20 for Fostering Inclusive and Sustainable Global Value Chains

1st June 2021
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A significant share of global production takes place in global value chains (GVCs). Participating in GVCs is widely associated with economic benefits, such as productivity and employment creation, and considered one of the driving forces of growth and development worldwide[...]

KCG Policy Paper No. 5: Lagging behind? German Foreign Direct Investment in Africa

3rd June 2020
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Authors: Julian Glitsch, Olivier Godart, Holger Görg, Saskia Mösle, and Frauke Steglich

German Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Africa is lagging behind China, France, the Netherlands, the UK, the US, and other economies. It represented only 1 percent of the German total FDI stock abroad in 2018 and is concentrated in few African countries[…]

KCG Policy Paper on German FDI in Africa Published Today

3rd June 2020
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Fishing boats on the shore of Cape Coast, Ghana
Around 850 German firms are located in Africa and they employ roughly 200,000 people. However, German Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on the continent represented only 1 percent of the total German FDI stock abroad in 2018. Germany is thus still lagging behind China, France, the Netherlands, the UK, the US, and other economies regarding investment volume in Africa[...]

KCG Researchers Gave Presentations at the Aarhus-Kiel Workshop 2019

27th December 2019
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The Aarhus-Kiel Workshop is an annual research workshop, jointly organized by the Research Centre for Firms and Industry Dynamics at the Aarhus University and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in cooperation with KCG. It serves as an excellent platform for scholars from Aarhus and Kiel who are specialised in globalization research to present and discuss research (in progress) with other experts in the field[...]

The 2019 Forum on Globalization and Industrialization Successfully Took Place in Vienna

5th December 2019
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As part of a multi-year cooperation between the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) and KCG, the 2019 Forum on Globalization and Industrialization (FGI) “The Future of Global Value Chains (GVCs): How the Fourth Industrial Revolution is Changing Global Production Networks” took place on November 19, 2019 at the UNIDO Headquarters in Vienna. The 2019 FGI brought together around 100 policymakers[...]

KCG Workshop to be Held on Nov. 20, 2019

19th November 2019
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The Kiel Centre for Globalization (KCG), a Leibniz ScienceCampus founded in October 2016, evaluates with its interdisciplinary research agenda the proliferation of global value chains as an important aspect of globalization[...]


KCG Researchers Gave Presentations at the Annual Conference of the European Trade Study Group

11th November 2019
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KCG’s thematic focus has been to work on an interdisciplinary research agenda that evaluates the proliferation of global value chains (GVCs) as an important aspect of globalization. As a matter of course, trade and related research issues belong to KCG’s priority research topics. To share the research insights obtained and exchange knowledge with other trade experts, KCG researchers actively attended international trade workshops and conferences, incl. the Annual Conference of the European Trade Study Group (ETSG) – one of the large-scale trade conferences worldwide. The ETSG Conference provides a forum for discussion and research on international trade and attracts economists and experts interested in trade related issues from universities and research institutes over the world[...]

KCG Lunch-Time Seminar on CSR in Global Value Chains on Oct. 25, 2019

23rd October 2019
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Frauke Steglich (IfW & KCG) will give a KCG-Lunch-Time Seminar titled “Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Value Chains: The Role of Downstreamness and Stakeholders’ Demand” on October 25, 2019 at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)[...]

2019 Forum on Globalization and Industrialization is Now Open for Registration

16th October 2019
KCG Secretary
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The 2019 Forum on Globalization and Industrialization (FGI) with its overarching topic “The Future of Global Value Chains (GVCs): How the Fourth Industrial Revolution is Changing Global Production Networks” will take place on Nov. 19, 2019 at the Vienna International Centre in Vienna, Austria. This is the fourth annual conference jointly organised by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Kiel Centre for Globalization (KCG) at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy[...]

KCG Researchers Gave Presentations at the PEGNet Annual Conference

2nd October 2019
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KCG PhD Fellows Finn Ole Semrau and Frauke Steglich joined the Annual Conference of the Poverty Reduction, Equity and Growth Network (PEGNet) on September 9-10, 2019 in Bonn. The conference brought together development researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to discuss topics related to this year’s conference theme “Promoting Social, Economic and Socio-political Development through Social Protection”.[...]

KCG Researchers Work on a new GIZ Project on FDI Promotion in Africa

6th September 2019
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Africa is low and there has been no significant growth in recent decades. While the FDI stock worldwide has increased from 20.3 trillion USD in 2010 to 33.5 trillion USD in 2017, the comparable figures for the African continent are only 598 and 867 billion USD respectively (UNCTAD, 2018). This means that[…]

KCG Researchers Gave Presentations at the Second HSU-IfW-Workshop in Development and Environmental Economics

25th July 2019
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KCG Researchers Prof. Gabriel Felbermayr, Ph.D., Prof. Holger Görg, Ph.D., Dr. Birgit Meyer, Finn Ole Semrau and Frauke Steglich joined the second HSU-IfW-Workshop in Development and Environmental Economics, which took place on June 7, 2019 at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) in Kiel, Germany. The HSU-IfW-Workshop in Development Economics and Environmental Economics, which was co-organized by IfW and the Helmut Schmidt University[…]

KCG Working Paper No. 16: Foreign Direct Investment & Petty Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Empirical Analysis at the Local Level

11th July 2019
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Authors: Julian Donaubauer, Peter Kannen and Frauke Steglich

Inspired by a recent and ongoing debate about whether foreign direct investment (FDI) represents a blessing for or an impediment to economic, social, and political development in FDI host countries this paper addresses two issues[…]

KCG Researchers Participated in the CASS-IfW Workshop 2019 on Global Challenges and Solutions

31st May 2019
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The Kiel Institute for the World Economy, one of the scientific partners of KCG, organised an academic workshop with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in cooperation with the Global Solutions Initiative on April 16, 2019 in Kiel Germany. Under the overarching theme “Global Challenges and Global Solutions”, more than 40 scholars, including a 20-person CASS-Delegation […]

Frauke Steglich Gave a Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society

17th May 2019
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KCG Researcher Frauke Steglich participated in the Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society (EPCS), which took place on April 1-4, 2019 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. EPCS focuses on economic and interdisciplinary research of non-market decision making processes and institutions[…]

KCG Researchers Participated in the Global Solutions Summit 2019

18th April 2019
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The Global Solutions Summit 2019 with its overarching theme “Recoupling Social and Economic Progress towards a Global Paradigm Change” was held by the Global Solutions Initiative on March 18-19, 2019 at ESMT in Berlin. The multi-stakeholder event gathered 1600 experts from more than 100 countries together to explore and discuss policy recommendations on issues such as trade and investment, multilateralism, social cohesion, climate change and sustainable development[…]

KCG Researchers Joined the Aarhus-Kiel Workshop 2018

10th January 2019
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The Aarhus-Kiel Workshop is an annual research workshop, jointly organized by the School of Business and Social Sciences at the Aarhus University and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. It is supported by the Tuborg Research Centre for Globalisation and Firms also at the Aarhus University[…]

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[…]

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 Contributed to a New UNIDO Report on Global Value Chains with Focus on Asia

16th August 2018
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The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) recently published a new report “Global Value Chains (GVCs) and Industrial Development – Lessons from China, South-East and South Asia” to provide evidence on the evolution of global and regional value chains in Asia. From the Asian lessons policy suggestions are derived to support firms’ and countries’ participation in GVCs and encourage their upgrading over time[…]

KCG Researchers Visited Micro-econometrics Summer School in Barcelona, Spain

19th July 2018
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KCG PhD Researchers, Thilo Kroeger, Finn Ole Semrau, and Frauke Steglich, joined the Microeconometrics Summer School offered by the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) from June 25 to July 6, 2018 in Barcelona, Spain. It is of high importance for KCG to support the academic training of its researchers, particularly that of the PhD Researchers[…]

KCG Fellows Attended the Global Solutions Summit in Berlin

1st June 2018
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This year’s Global Solution Summit took place on May 28 and 29, 2018 in Berlin. The annual summit is organized by the global think tank network “Global Solutions Initiative” that is chaired by Prof. Dennis J. Snower Ph.D., President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. The summit brought together international leaders from academia, business, politics and the civil society with the aim of discussing[…]

KCG PhD Researchers Participated in a Week-long Lecture on “Dynamics of International Trade”

5th April 2018
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In March 2018 two KCG PhD Researchers Thilo Kroeger and Frauke Steglich attended a lecture provided by Samuel Kortum, James Burrows Moffatt Professor of Economics at Yale University. The lecture “Dynamics of International Trade” took place at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy as part of the Kiel Institute’s Advanced Studies Program[…]

KCG’s PhD students participated in a week-long seminar on “International Trade: Monopolistic Competition and Gravity”

11th January 2018
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In the second week of December 2017 Professor Dennis Novy from the University of Warwick, UK, visited the Kiel Institute and taught an advanced course on “International Trade: Monopolistic Competition and Gravity”. KCG’s PhD researchers Thilo Kroeger and Frauke Steglich participated in this course, which was part of the Kiel Institute’s Advanced Studies Program in International Economic Policy Research (ASP)[…]

External Research Fellow Prof. Girma Visited Kiel Last Week

2nd November 2017
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During the week from October 23rd to 27th KCG’s external research fellow Professor Sourafel Girma from Nottingham University visited the Kiel Institute and KCG. Professor Girma used his stay to discuss current and future research projects with KCG members […]

KCG’s PhD students participated in a week-long seminar on “The Governance of Trade and Investment in a New Era of Globalization”

12th October 2017
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During the last week of September 2017 KCG’s PhD researchers Thilo Kroeger, Finn Ole Semrau, and Frauke Steglich participated in an advanced seminar on “The Governance of Trade and Investment in a New Era of Globalization” held by Iza Lejárraga of the OECD. […]

KCG members presented the KCG at the European Researchers’ Night in the Kiel Region

5th October 2017
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KCG PhD Researchers Guli-Sanam Karimova, Thilo Kroeger, Finn Ole Semrau, and Frauke Steglich and KCG Deputy Coordinator Cecilia Hornok presented the KCG on September 29, 2017 at the European Researchers' Night in Plön. The European Researchers' Night is aimed at bringing together individuals, entrepreneurs, and scientists to communicate research to the broader public and is open to everyone interested in science.[…]

Holger Görg and Frauke Steglich Joined the UNIDO-UIBE Workshop on Global Value Chains

20th July 2017
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KCG Managing Director Prof. Holger Görg Ph.D. and KCG PhD Researcher Frauke Steglich joined the UNIDO-UIBE Workshop on global value chains (GVCs) on July 11-12, 2017 in Vienna. The Workshop organized by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the University of International Business and Economics of China (UIBE) aimed at bringing together experts in global value chain research to discuss the general strategy, incl. main objectives, research methods and key outcomes, of the project “A Study on Global Value Chains and International Cooperation on Industrial Capacity with a Focus on China, South-East and South Asian Countries”. The main goal of the project is to provide more insights into the role of global value chains for Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development (ISID), a key component of the Goal 9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, with a special focus on China and other Asian countries.[…]

First KCG PhD-Researcher Meeting Took Place on March 7th, 2017

16th March 2017
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PhD Researchers are key players in the KCG team. They do preparation work for the KCG research projects, carry out the projects with project leaders, and are strongly and directly involved in transforming research results obtained into different scientific publications and presentations. […]

FDI, Involvement in Global Supply Chains and Host Country Development

5th January 2017
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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[…]

Frauke Steglich Joined the KCG

3rd November 2016
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Frauke Steglich joined the Kiel Centre for Globalization as a PhD researcher in October 2016. She is a researcher at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and a Ph.D. candidate in Quantitative Economics at the Kiel University. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the Kiel […]


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