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

The Covid-19 pandemic is a major test for governments around the world. We study the political consequences of (mis-)managing the...

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

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

The COVID-19 outbreak has cut China's supply of and raised the world's demand for face masks, disinfectants, ventilators, and other...

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

We provide a calculation tool to assess the properties of a maximumlikelihood (ML) estimator that extrapolates the true prevalence of...

We study how urban land use fragmentation affects the subjective wellbeing of city residents. Therefore, we calculate fragmentation...

This paper reports the results from a statistical analysis of pharmaceutical price negotiations in Germany, where the pricing system...

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

For around four decades, a large part of worldwide production has been organized in so-called Global Value Chains (GVCs). Raw...

Severe shortages of health personnel provide a justification for the international community to support developing countries in their...

In early 2020, the disease Covid-19 caused a drastic lockdown of the Chinese economy. We use a quantitative trade model with...

This essay discusses the economic implications of the Covid-19 pandemic, paying particular attention to the international trade...

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

Background: The association between burnout and patient safety has been analyzed in many studies for nurses, physicians, and...

Introduction: Increasing numbers of hospital emergency department (ED) visits pose a challenge to healthsystems in many countries....

Competition in hospital services has been fostered in an increasing number of OECD countries with the goal that hospitals improve...

Studies on social and regional inequalities in access to health care often use spatial indicators such as physician density to measure...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 145: The German Environment Agency (UBA) recently calculated the impact of a universal speed limit on Germany...