Whereas various drivers of the international innovative activity have been studied in the literature, our understanding of the contributions...

In August 2014, the Russian Federation implemented an embargo on select food and agricultural imports from Western countries in response to...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 162: The author shows that the US as the world’s largest investor abroad so far shuns the most dynamic host region East...

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

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...

Hard-to-abate CO2 emissions are often compensated by companies with voluntary CO2 certificates from so-called offset markets. Transforming...

Linking the EU and Chinese Emission Trading Systems (ETS) increases the cost-efficiency of reaching greenhouse gas mitigation targets, but...

Linking the EU and Chinese Emission Trading Systems (ETS) increases the cost-efficiency of reaching greenhouse gas mitigation targets, but...

We investigate the export-enhancing effect of foreign workers at the firm level. We first develop a theoretical framework of heterogeneous...

China’s policy of encouraging export processing has been the topic of much discussion in the academic literature and policy debate. We use a...

In 2011, the EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (EUKFTA) entered into force. With its focus on nontariff barriers (NTBs), it is a leading...

To win the critical race between vaccines and mutations, the worldwide vaccination Covid-19 campaign must mobilise economies of scale. The...

This in-depth analysis discusses issues in trade in digitally deliverable services and the geopolitics of digital trade policy. Digitally...

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

The COVID-19 pandemic has made clear how important multilateral cooperation is in overcoming global challenges, such as this global health...

SARS-Cov-2, das die potenziell tödliche Krankheit Covid-19 auslösende Virus, scheint umso gefährlichere Mutationen zu bilden, je weiter es...

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

We study the stability of trade policy arrangements under two regulatory scenarios, with/without PTAs. Unlike previous papers, we consider an...