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

The impacts of the “COVID-19 shock” on African economies are unfolding rapidly and can be expected to vary widely by country. The effects can be divided into indirect effects depending on countries’ exposure to international trade, tourism and FDI in...

… Our statistical results suggest that ties between Chinese provinces and their counterparts around the globe, such as U.S. states, helped secure commercial exports and donations of medical equipment. First, Chinese provinces seem to have...

During the peak phase of the corona pandemic, Chinese exports of critical medical goods such as protective masks went primarily to economic and political partners. Chinese companies were able to push through drastic price increases against...

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

... Cristoph Trebesch (Kiel Institute for the World Economy, CEPR) talks to Tim Phillips about the findings in his recent Covid Economics paper: Corona politics: The cost of mismanaging pandemics Helios ...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 146: China assumed an important role during the worldwide outbreak of COVID-19 as the main exporter of critical medical goods such as face masks and disinfectants.

... Harvard economist Carmen Reinhart and two colleagues, Sebastian Horn and Christoph Trebesch, from Germany’s Kiel Institute for the World Economy, spent two years scrubbing previously untapped data sources ...

Governments that successfully contain the pandemic and adopt strict countermeasures are the big winners of the Corona Crisis—with approval rates increasing by more than 7 percentage points since February 2020. In comparison, governments that follow...