Underpinning China’s technological advancement are the twin-engines of exports and innovation. To better understand China’s meteoric economic...

Underpinning China’s technological advancement are the twin-engines of exports and innovation. To better understand China’s meteoric economic...

In tandem with the current climate talks in Glasgow (COP26), Aoife Hanley and her co-author Limin DU (Zheijiang University, China) draw ...

Opportunities for well-paid employment for women are scarce in many African countries. Entrepreneurship is therefore one way in which women...

We explore the export performance of Africa’s underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel, a comprehensive...

Finding the internationalization triggers of family-managed firms is not easy because family-managed firms are regarded as being very...

In this article, we briefly review our own work, and related studies, on the impact of FDI in African countries using firm level data....

We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation increase in...

Our analysis is the first of its kind to explore patterns of subsidization and CO2 emissions in China’s electricity-producing sector. Applying...

This volume brings together research papers dealing with the causes and consequences of offshoring. The first part considers causes and...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 12

Kiel Policy Brief No. 66: Women are more fearful of taking risks than men. Researchers suggest that the early exit behavior of women in...

In this paper, we propose a new meta-frontier estimation method to investigate the environmental technical efficiency and carbon abatement...

We investigate whether firms’ "global engagement", either in the form of exporting or opening up affiliates abroad, is related to the change...

This paper investigates the role of regional credit systems for Chinese regional innovation, using data for the period 2000-2008. Both the...

We compare the performance of Northern and Southern multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa, and contrast it with local firms in the host...

In this paper we look at the link between transport costs and offshoring activity. The paper does not aspire to be a complete survey of the...

While African countries are becoming more and more relevant as host countries for suppliers of multinational companies little is known about...

The paper examines the impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on the survival of business start-ups. FDI has potential for both negative...