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The EU's agreement with China after years of negotiations only came about against the backdrop of Joe Biden's election victory...

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Foraging humans find food, reproduce, share parenting, and even organise their social groups in similar ways as surrounding...

Kiel Institute Statements - Gabriel Felbermayr

Gabriel Felbermayr, President of the Kiel Institute, comments on the Brexit deal:

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Our most recent forecasts for Germany, the Euro Area and the World Economy as well as current commentary on economic and...

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

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Vincent Stamer

Global container ship movements may reliably predict global trade flows. Aggregating both movements at sea and port call events...

Toman Barsbai, Dieter Lukas, Andreas Pondorfer

Behavior is a way for organisms to respond flexibly to the environmental conditions they encounter. Our own species occurs in a...

Askar Mukashov

This paper suggests using portfolio management methods in policy planning models as a practical tool for determining optimal policy...

Chuck Fang, Julian Schumacher, Christoph Trebesch

Sovereign debt crises are difficult to solve. This paper studies the “holdout problem”, meaning the risk that creditors refuse to...

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... Cristoph Trebesch (Kiel Institute for the World Economy, CEPR) talks to Tim Phillips about the findings in his recent Covid...

... Reinhart of Harvard, and Sebastian Horn and Christoph Trebesch, from Germany’s Kiel Institute for the World Economy, China...

... "An effective vaccine with few side effects changes everything," Gabriel Felbermayr told Reuters. An aggressive second wave of...

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China’s Overseas Lending

28 Jan 2021

New Lecture Series: China's Economic Rise - Political Transformations in Asia and Beyond

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For many, it is hard to imagine to start a day without coffee. But who and which countries actually have benefitted more from the global coffee production and consumption? How has global coffee trade developed over the past decades? Does...

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