The Kiel Centre for Globalization (KCG) works on an interdisciplinary research agenda that evaluates the proliferation of global supply chains as an important aspect of globalization.

The recent tariff increases in the current trade war between the USA and China is also making goods in third countries more expensive. The US trading partners Canada and Mexico, but also the EU, are particularly affected. A new study shows how...

This paper considers the indirect impact the recent tariff increases between the US and China can have in third countries through links in global supply chains

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...

We ask whether production related subsidies have a role to play in explaining Chinese firms’ export performance. We, firstly, implement an estimation approach that allows for both direct and indirect (“spillover”) effects of the subsidy on the...