The international system for the governance of foreign investments is highly fragmented consisting mainly of bilateral agreements....

This paper analyses the development of spatial concentration of various innovation activities in China from 2000 to 2015 by using a...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 101: Against the background of the continuously weaker economic growth in China in the past few years, the...

The growth performance of the Chinese economy has been very strong over the last decade, even in the time of the current financial...

The overarching aim of the study is to investigate the key factors that determine how and how intensively countries can be integrated...

The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of the global trade network underpinning global value chains. Initial disruptions in...

Current global value chains are highly efficient, specialized and interconnected, but also highly vulnerable to global risks. The...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 142: Taiwan and South Korea are generally considered to be more successful than many others in containing the...

Based on original survey data, this paper analyses and compares the role of personal traits and networks in determining...

With the expansion of the higher education system in China since the late 1990s, questions on the distribution of higher education...

Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) into the European Union (EU) has increased substantially over the last decade. Whereas the EU...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 117: The authors reveal that on the one hand China alleviates inward FDI with a clear focus on promoting...

Based on a household survey from China, this paper analyzes the effect of within-household relative income on happiness, taking into...

The government of the People’s Republic of China (China, hereafter) is widely perceived to play an active role in designing and...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 95: Since January 2014 China and the European Union (EU) have been negotiating a comprehensive bilateral...

The growth performance of the Chinese economy has been very strong over the last decade, even in the time of the current financial...

The government of the People’s Republic of China (China, hereafter) is widely perceived to play an active role in designing and...