We explore the export performance of Africa’s underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel, a comprehensive dataset of manufacturing firms for 2011–2015. Uniquely, the data provides information about the severity of key...

The Aarhus-Kiel Workshop is a yearly event which brings together researchers affiliated with Aarhus University or Kiel University / the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) who are active in the field of international economics / international...

This paper studies the relationship between firm markups and importing intermediate inputs and exporting using detailed firm-level data from Hungary in 1995-2003. We estimate production functions structurally to obtain firm-year-level productivity...

KBW 16: The German current account surplus in relation to GDP has reached record high levels in historical and international comparison over the last years. From an accounting perspective, the trade and the primary income surpluses, and here net...

The CASS-IfW Workshop 2019 brings together scholars from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) to discuss global economic challenges and explore together potential solutions. The one-day...

Using detailed U.S. and Spanish export data, we document that trade costs of a per-shipment nature are associated with less frequent and larger shipment

Most economists view trade as benefiting countries overall but leading to winners and losers within nations. This column summarises a recent survey about winners and losers from globalisation prepared in the context of the FP7 COEURE project. It...