China is very likely to increase its engagement and investments in Russia’s energy sector. The foundations for this have been laid in recent...

This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover...

This paper evaluates firms’ exporting responses to BRI and considers their heterogeneity in ownership types, product types, regional origin...

While the geopolitical rivalry between the European Union (EU) and Russia over their common neighborhood has increasingly attracted academic...

Russia's impact on EU policy transfer to the post-Soviet space has not been as negative as often perceived. EU policies have traveled to...

In order to better understand why some nations are more innovative than others, this paper considers the influence of socio-historic...

This paper studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. We compile a new database of 220,000 monthly prices of foreign-currency...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 159: Although bilateral development cooperation officially ended in 2009, China is still the third largest recipient of...

The relationship between nutrient intake and wealth of poor households continues to be an issue of huge policy relevance. In this paper, we...

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

We argue that overconfidence wrongly inflates the expected returns to a risky income-generating activity. Overconfidence thus increase the...

This article introduces a new econometric model that includes an innovative measure of intersectoral structural change. This model describes...

Adding to the research on the corruption and gender nexus, this paper contributes by several dimensions, including: (a) measurement of...

A Rare Look into 100 Debt Contracts With Foreign Governments Through a systematic search of debt information management systems, official...

Can South-South FDI, or investment flows between institutionally comparable partners better stimulate growth through backward linkages? When...

This paper evaluates firms’ exporting responses to BRI and considers their heterogeneity in ownership types, product types, regional origin...

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

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

International student flows from emerging and developing countries have grown tremendously over the last decades. In this paper, we address...

A core result of the aid allocation literature is that the quality of governance in recipient countries does not affect the amounts of foreign...