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Slowdown in Germany Is Only Temporary

The current boom still has a way to go, even though the end is getting closer.

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Interview with Bas van Abel, Founder and CEO of Fairphone B.V., at the Kiel...

Slowdown in Germany only temporary / Dämpfer für Deutsche Konjunktur nur temporär

The economic researchers at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW...

Excellence Award winners Mathieu Couttenier (Universität Genf), Ferdinand Rauch (University of Oxford), Felix Tintelnot (Chicago University) with Dennis J. Snower (left to right). Award winner Matteo Maggiori (Harvard University) is missing on the picture.

Four young economists based in the United States and Europe received this...

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Jens Boysen-Hogrefe - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) / Kiel Institute for the World Economy

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

A stop to climate change and a move away from fossil fuels will lead to profound changes in society and the lifestyles of...

Millions of refugees would like to come to Europe, especially Germany. How can these people be integrated? What are the...

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Young woman who is carrying a basket on her head walks through green fields. — © "Africa’s economy rebounds strongly, but jobs remain elusive" by Africa Renewal, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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In order to address long-standing economic challenges, in 2016 the Government of Egypt (GOE) put in place a major economic reform program to restore macroeconomic...

Trade preferences provide a potential policy tool for supporting refugee employment in countries of first asylum. Thus, in the context of the EU-Jordan ...

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Ride with Me - Ethnic Discrimination in Social Markets

European Sociological Review

07/2018

We study ethnic discrimination in Europe’s largest carpooling marketplace. Using a unique dataset with more than 17,000 rides, we estimate the effects of drivers’...

Climate engineering (CE) and carbon capture and storage are controversial options for addressing climate change. This study compares public perception in Germany of three...

Dennis J. Snower awaits a proper answer from G7 and G20 to multilateralism in crisis.

Oped by Ricardo Hausmann and Julian Hinz in which they require from the international community to grant Venezuelans refugee status...

TV Interview with Dennis J. Snower on US-Chinese trade relations

Dennis Snower warns that a trade war between the US and China could impact globalized Germany the most

Is Donald Trump ultimately right? The current trade war between the US and the EU has led to whispers that the American president...

Julian Hinz explains how much sanctions against Russia also harm the the sanctioning countries.

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Macroeconomics in Open Economies

30 - 10 Jul - Aug 2018

The course consists of two main parts. We first review the major building blocks of international economics. In the second part, we focus more extensively on selected topics that have been prominent areas of research in recent years. ...

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Firms and Workers in the Global Marketplace

13 - 17 Aug 2018

The main objectives of the course are: (1) Make you familiar with some of the most important and policy-relevant questions in the field of International Trade as well as the methodologies used to address them; (2) Teach you how to critically...

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