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How is Europe integrated in today’s global value chains? What are potential challenges and risks European countries face with their specific position in globalised trade? These are the key questions being addressed in the new GED study with the Cologne Institute for Economic...

The rising protectionism worldwide and, more specifically, the political antics of the incumbent U.S. President, Donald Trump, have given strong momentum to what some observers have already called “Europe’s Asia Pivot”. Furthermore, Brexit means that the European Union is...

Since Donald Trump’s inauguration, the risk is growing that the US trade policy will count increasingly on protectionist measures. The aim of this isolationist policy is to secure jobs and maintain incomes in the US. But actually, higher import tariffs and other import...

The GED Project is launching a new series: GED Economic Outlook. In this series, we will look at what the future might bring for countries or economic variables we are interested in. In this first instalment of the series, we look at Japan. Japan was hit by an economic...

Bollywood, Yoga, Call Center – in Germany, India stands primarily for esotericism and the relocation of services, but less for industrial production and trade in goods. One reason for this is the fact that despite its size, India is a dwarf as far as world trade is...

Bollywood, Yoga, Call Center – in Germany, India stands primarily for esotericism and the relocation of services, but less for industrial production and trade in goods. One reason for this is the fact that despite its size, India is a dwarf as far as world trade is...

Globalisation needs to be accompanied by a strong welfare state. A new GED focus paper suggests that the complementarity between openness to trade and a strong welfare state weakened over time. While trade – the key driver of globalisation – improves net welfare, it comes...

When the French head to the polls to elect their new president on April 23rd and May 7th, questions of economic and social policy will be at the centre of many people’s concerns. And indeed, the socio-economic challenges the country is facing are manifold, at the core of...

Germany is an attractive destination for foreign direct investment (FDI) from China and ranked third as host country of Chinese FDI in the European Union. Motives for Chinese companies to invest in Germany include access to the German and the European market, a highly...

The world of international trade is changing faster and stronger than rarely before in modern history. After failed multilateral attempts by the WTO, nations are now banding together in great mega-regional free trading blocks.

Our new GED Study Series “How do...