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

This paper tries to explain the drivers of knowledge diffusion across a large sample of nations, focusing on the influence of...

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

We establish a causal role for banking access in the spread of the Industrial Revolution over the period 1817–1881 by exploiting unique...

We analyze the welfare effects of trade and migration, focusing on two-sided horizontal heterogeneity among workers and firms. Horizontal...

We investigate the ability of exports to trigger the adoption of environmental innovation (EI) in firms, shedding light on the determinants of...

Despite a general agreement that piracy poses a significant threat to maritime shipping, empirical evidence regarding its economic...

With ever-increasing political tensions between China and Russia on one side and the EU and the US on the other, it only seems a matter of...

This chapter identifies major trends that are expected to have big effects on the future of global supply chains, such as digitalisation,...

In a study commissioned by Gesamtmetall, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy examines the effects of the German Due Diligence Act, which...

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

With ever-increasing political tensions between China and Russia on one side and the EU and the US on the other, it only seems a matter of...

Combating climate change, and environmental degradation in general, is one of the most urgent challenges of our time. Accordingly, many...

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...

Despite having disappeared from the news since its peak in 2011, piracy continues to threaten maritime shipping. Combining firm-level customs...

We investigate economic causes of the rising support of populist parties in industrialised countries. Looking at Germany, we find that...

COVID-19 has put the importance of supply chains back onto the global economic agenda. The potential challenges associated with the...

Firms are under increasing pressure to meet stakeholders’ demand for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) along their global value chains. We...

Populist parties and actors now govern various countries around the world. Often elected by the public in times of crises and over the...

Improvements of firms' environmental performance crucially determine the speed of a country's green economic transformation. In this paper, we...