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.

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.

Kiel Policy Brief No. 159: Although bilateral development cooperation officially ended in 2009, China is still the third largest recipient of Germany's official development assistance, a fact that often causes frequent public confusion.

Underpinning China’s technological advancement are the twin-engines of exports and innovation. To better understand China’s meteoric economic transformation, we explore the extent to which new products are triggered by exports (direct effects) and by...

Underpinning China’s technological advancement are the twin-engines of exports and innovation. To better understand China’s meteoric economic transf

In tandem with the current climate talks in Glasgow (COP26), Aoife Hanley and her co-author Limin DU (Zheijiang University, China) draw  on their r

This in-depth analysis discusses issues in trade in digitally deliverable services and the geopolitics of digital trade policy. Digitally deliverable se

Digital trade is on the rise, but it is not yet well understood and remains largely unregulated. Trade is typically considered to be digital when part o

This paper analyses how China’s investments in Germany have developed over time and the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in this regard, based on four different datasets, including our own survey in mid-2020. Our analysis shows that Germany...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 150: The authors argue why positions of the entire current account—and not just goods trade accounts—are best suited to describe economic ties between countries.