China has been exporting aid goods worth around USD 835 million annually since 2017. These material resources are distributed by China primarily according to geopolitical interests and increasingly to Asia and Africa. The outbreak of the COVID-19...

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.

Sovereign defaults on Chinese debts are frequent but, due to the opacity of China's lending, data on these defaults is scarce. A new study involving the Kiel Institute shows that restructurings with Chinese lenders now surpass the number of...

This paper introduces a new dataset of official financing — including foreign aid and other forms of concessional and non-concessional state financing

An unprecedented cache of documents shows that Chinese loan contracts have unusual secrecy provisions, collateral requirements, and debt renegotiation restrictions.

A Rare Look into 100 Debt Contracts With Foreign Governments Through a systematic search of debt information management systems, official registers and

Little is known about the firm-level dynamics behind trade responses to political tensions. This article reinvestigates variation in the travel pattern

This article investigates whether China’s foreign aid is particularly prone to capture by political leaders of aid-receiving countries. We examine whe

This paper analyses the development of spatial concentration of various innovation activities in China from 2000 to 2015 by using a generalised Theil index based on a balanced provincial dataset. It additionally tracks the concentration development...