This paper presents the “Ukraine Support Tracker”, which lists and quantifies military, financial and humanitarian aid transferred by governments to Ukraine since January 24, 2022.

This database lists and quantifies military, financial and humanitarian aid transferred by governments to Ukraine since the end of diplomatic relations

Populist parties enjoy stable support in various European countries. The literature on the rise of populism argues that this support especially increase

KBW 40: The study, which was prepared as part of the joint project "Northern Germany and the Corona Crisis: Economic Consequences and Need for Economic Policy Action" by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) and NORDAKADEMIE University of...

With ever-increasing political tensions between China and Russia on one side and the EU and the US on the other, it only seems a matter of time until protectionist policies cause a decoupling of global value chains. This paper uses a computable...

The German economy is steering through difficult waters and faces the highest inflation rates in decades. In their spring report, the leading German economic research institutes revise their outlook for this year significantly downward.

Kiel Policy Brief No. 163: The authors show that the momentum of business with Russia was broken after the Russian occupation of Crimea in 2014 in the wake of sanctions and counter-sanctions, and that Russia has since lost importance as a trading...

KBW 39: As part of their SME Report Thuringia, the authors note that Thuringia's gross domestic product has developed less favorably than GDP in Germany as a whole since 2015, while the unemployment rate in Thuringia has fallen sharply and was below...

From an economic point of view, vaccine mandates are a negative incentive to get vaccinated. Positive incentives that induce unvaccinated individuals just as effectively – such as government-provided cash incentives – can be more flexible and avoid...

In a study commissioned by Gesamtmetall, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy examines the effects of the German Due Diligence Act, which was passed by the Bundestag in June 2021. The planned EU directive is also addressed. The law will increase...