KKB 61: World output growth has slowed further in the course of 2019. However, most recently signs of stabilization appeared, especially in emerging economies where expectations seem to have started to improve.

This paper provides an overview of the small but growing literature on the bilateral foreign aid activities carried out by the five BRICS countries. Whi

Old fears die hard. About a quarter of a century years ago the US launched a “structural impediment initiative” against Japan when both trade and in

Little is known about the firm-level dynamics behind trade responses to political tensions. This article reinvestigates variation in the travel pattern

The paper provides firm-level insights into the drivers of foreign technology licensing from the perspective of the licensee, using data across 114 nations. Drawing on the theoretical foundations related to knowledge spillovers, results show that...

We analyze the dynamics of the Japanese board network from 2004 until 2013. We find that the network exhibits some clustering with visible firm conglome

Climate change is a significant obstacle for farmers in the least developed countries like Afghanistan and adaptation support is exceptionally scarce. This paper provides evidence on the impact of the agriculture-related external support on farmers’...

China's lending to other countries is significantly larger than previously known and reported in official statistics. As of 2017, the world owed more than five trillion USD to the government of China, or around six percent of global economic output....

KKB 1: Die weltwirtschaftliche Expansion ist im Verlauf des Jahres 2014 erneut ins Stocken geraten. Von einem Aufschwung, der von allen Regionen getragen wird,