International trade has brought much prosperity to the world, but it is ironically the biggest profiteers who are hostile to free...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 125: The authors sketch the economic costs for EU member countries in case of a reversal of the integration...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 128: The World Trade Organization (WTO) has authorized the Unites States to impose tariffs on goods from the...

This article has two purposes. The first is to dispel some common myths regarding the Brexit negotiations – the myth that the UK is...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 118: This paper projects government interest payments as a percentage of GDP for Germany, France, Italy and...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 120: he authors show that despite its high debt-to-GDP ratio and increasing risk premia on government bonds,...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 116: Thanks to an indirect hair cut on its debt via low long-term fixed interest rates and maturity extensions...

In the course of the EU Eastern Enlargement the United Kingdom was one of the few EU-15 countries which from the beginning took...

The refugee policy of the EU and its member states faces complex challenges. It needs to reflect and reconcile the living conditions...

The current asylum system is contradictory, unfair, and both costly and hazardous for all involved. Under the present rules, refugees...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 107: The authors Klaus Schrader and Marta Ulivelli analyse the shortcomings of the Italian economy and of the...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 103: For eight years, Greece has remained in crisis mode but the rescue from economic decline is still not...

The Sustainable Development Goal for the oceans and coasts (SDG 14) as part of the 2030 Agenda can be considered as an important step...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 108: The political conflict over the legal status of Catalonia fuels concerns about the future economic...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 106: In his Kiel Policy Brief the Kiel economist Jürgen Stehn asks, in how far the White Paper on the Future of...

This report examines key aspects of the European Union-China economic relationship, including trade, investment and China’s key...

This policy brief examines the effects of the Covid19 pandemic on international trade. ...

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

This study analyses the consequences of the US countervailing duties imposed due to illicit subsidies for the European joint venture...

The Austrian ski resort of Ischgl is commonly claimed to be ground zero for the diffusion of the SARS-CoV-2 virus across Germany....