Analysis, comments, and proposals by the Kiel Institute regarding the global Corona crisis and the containment of its economic damage.

... pandemic and responsible for many avoidable deaths in the countries they govern," Michael Bayerlein, a researcher on populism at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, said in a statement Thursday. ...

… Economists in Germany are also unconvinced. “If the EU were to decouple even partially from international supply networks, this would considerably worsen the standard of living for people inside the EU as well as for its trading partners, and...

Populist governments perform worse than non-populist governments in handling the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences. This applies, for example, to countries such as the United Kingdom, Hungary, and India. Excess mortality—the number of deaths...

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

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

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

In a Kiel Focus article Michael Stolpe suggests to use patent buy-outs to vaccinate the world.

Severe shortages of health personnel provide a justification for the international community to support developing countries in their efforts to retain medical workers through improved local conditions. Our new research shows that aid for health as...