... The new paper by Sebastian Horn and Carmen Reinhart of the World Bank and Christoph Trebesch of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy counts 261 instances of debt relief or renegotiation since 2000. Since China is far from open about its...

China is very likely to increase its engagement and investments in Russia’s energy sector. The foundations for this have been laid in recent years, analyzes Wan-Hsin Liu, Senior Researcher at the Kiel Institute.

German companies are increasingly investing abroad in China. This is particularly true in the manufacturing sector, such as the automotive industry. US companies, on the other hand, are largely staying away from the country. ”German companies are on...

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 Asia including China and instead continues to focus on investment in Europe.

Despite ongoing congestions in container shipping, global trade is up in January compared with the previous month and has now even surpassed its pre-crisis level (price and seasonally adjusted). This follows from the latest data update of the Kiel...