Digital trade is on the rise, but it is not yet well understood and remains largely unregulated. Trade is typically considered to be...

The EU was able to achieve important successes in its investment agreement with China, but falls short of its original goals. For...

KBW 33: The study, which was prepared as part of the joint project "Northern Germany and the Corona Crisis: Economic Consequences and...

We slipped from ‘A World at Risk’ to ‘A World in Disorder’ in just a few months, but the current reversal of fortune looks has more...

The Covid-19 crisis is a highly asymmetric one where cities are the epicenter of the crisis but not the main decision- makers....

We investigate the relationship between energy intensity and firms’ internationalization strategies by using data for Indian firms...

There is little the European Union today needs more urgently than cohesion, unity and solidarity. From this perspective, it seems...

The impacts of the “COVID-19 shock” on African economies are unfolding rapidly and can be expected to vary widely by country. The...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 139: In cooperation with the World Free Zones Organization, the IfW Kiel has conducted a survey among special...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 144: The restrictions on freedom of travel and far-reaching infection control measures in the wake of the...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 146: China assumed an important role during the worldwide outbreak of COVID-19 as the main exporter of critical...

The 2008 financial crisis was devastating to the world economy. But the biggest cost of the crisis might be not economic but...

COVID-19 has struck at the core of global value chains hub regions, including China, Europe and the US. The pandemic has severe...

The G20 was shaped out of the 2008 global financial crisis, which took place only a couple of years after the world officially turned...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 129: Despite the gloomy economic outlook for Germany, the Federal Employment Agency will continue to generate...

KBW 14: In the present Kiel Institute subsidy report the federal grants as well as total tax benefits are documented until the year...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 121: The author supports the hypothesis that the current positive financial position of the German health...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 109: The tendering system in accordance with the German EEG 2017 distinguishes between civil energy companies...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 114: The rate of contributions to unemployment insurance should be reduced immediately from 3 to 2.5 percent....

Kiel Policy Brief No. 104: In Germany, the system of unemployment insurance has been in surplus since 2011. The reserves amounted to...