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The German economy is cooling significantly and the global political uncertainty is affecting the German economy. In their...

The new EU Parliament tends to be slightly more protectionist towards free trade agreements than before. Despite a stronger...

Kiel Institute President Gabriel Felbermayr sees polarisation within the EU as a warning signal.

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Deutschland hat seit Jahren einen Leistungsbilanzüberschuss, der international kritisiert wird. Die Bedeutung der deutschen...

Stefan Hoffmann , Jan Krause , Wassili Lasarov ...

While reports state that consumers are increasingly willing to consume more sustainably, no study has considered how the activation of...

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The Japanese Corporate Board Network

Kiel Working Papers

05/2019

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Matthias Raddant , Hiroshi Takahashi

We analyze the dynamics of the Japanese board network from 2004 until 2013. We find that the network exhibits some clustering with...

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This paper investigates the persistence of self-employment in the districts of Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave, between 1925 and 2010....

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Gabriel Felbermayr thinks that the boom in Chinese foreign investment has passed its peak

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Gabriel Felbermayr accuses the EU of having manoeuvred the British into a dead end with its Brexit strategy. ...

Ruth Delzeit comments on the results of a study according to which almost 30-40% of the carbon dioxide released by forest...

Reports from the CASS-IfW Workshop "Global challenges and global solutions"

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The Global Economy Prize is awarded to pioneers of a cosmopolitan, economically liberal, and public-spirited society. This year's nominees are Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble, Prof. Daron Acemoglu, Ph.D. and Hikmet Ersek. ...

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The (In)Elasticity of Moral Ignorance (Nora Szech)

28 Jun 2019

We investigate the elasticity of preferences for moral ignorance with respect to monetary incentives and social norm information. We propose a model where uncertainty diﬀerentially decreases the moral costs of unethical behavior, and benchmark...

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