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The US After the Election

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Trump has failed with his campaign promises to achieve complete revitalization of the US manufacturing industry. His economic...

Germany's financial contribution to global security within NATO is higher than often criticized by US President Trump. This is...

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During the peak phase of the corona pandemic, Chinese exports of critical medical goods such as protective masks went primarily...

Research and commentary on economic policy issues in Germany such as taxation, subsidies, the welfare system, demographic...

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Britain leave the union and elsewhere anti-European forces gain strength. The differences between the EU member states in...

Overview of the G20 Summit 2017 in Hamburg. Angela Merkel is speaking in front of a great hall full of people sitting at their desks.

One focus of our international policy advice is on the topics of the 20 most important industrial and emerging countries...

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Smoothing the adjustment to trade liberalization

Empirica (Journal of European Economics)

11/2020

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Wolfgang Lechthaler, Mariya Mileva

We use a dynamic general equilibrium trade model with comparative advantage, heterogeneous firms, hetero- geneous workers and...

Natalie Baier, Jonas Pieper, Jürgen Schweikart ...

Studies on social and regional inequalities in access to health care often use spatial indicators such as physician density to measure...

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Foreign exchange intervention: A new database

Kiel Working Papers

10/2020

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Marcel Fratzscher, Tobias Heidland, Lukas Menkhoff ...

We construct a novel database of monthly foreign exchange interventions for 49 countries over up to 22 years. We build on a text...

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Populist Leaders and the Economy

Kiel Working Papers

10/2020

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Manuel Funke, Moritz Schularick, Christoph Trebesch

Populism at the country level is at an all-time high, with more than 25% of nations currently governed by populists. How do economies...

... Covid pandemic: Lessons from cross-country polling data Helios Herrera, Max Konradt, Guillermo Ordoñez, Christoph Trebesch 06...

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