Geo-political tensions and disruptions to global value chains have led policy makers to re-evaluate their approach to globalisation. Many countries are considering friend-shoring - trading primarily with countries sharing similar values - as a way of minimising exposure to weaponisation of trade...

The Russian attack on Ukraine in February 2022 marked not only a turning point (Zeitenwende) for German security policy but also for German foreign economic policy. From a European standpoint, the war served as a painful reminder of how economic dependencies can be used as political leverage,...

Dreißig Jahre nach seiner Gründung fällt das Fazit zu den Integrationsfortschritten des Mercosur gemischt aus. Während die Handelsliberalisierung innerhalb des Mercosur als Erfolg verbucht werden kann, wurden die Ziele einer Umwandlung zur Zollunion und tiefere Integrationsschritte verfehlt....

Dreißig Jahre nach seiner Gründung fällt das Fazit zu den Integrationsfortschritten des Mercosur gemischt aus. Während die Handelsliberalisierung innerhalb des Mercosur als Erfolg verbucht werden kann, wurden die Ziele einer Umwandlung zur Zollunion und tiefere Integrationsschritte verfehlt....

In recent decades, China has risen to become Germany’s most important trading partner for international trade in goods. Has Germany become too dependent from trade with China? An analysis using direct and indirect value-added linkages along the supply chain shows that China plays an important,...

This paper investigates the effect of robotization in high-income countries on firm-level North-South trade along the value chain. Using a novel combination of data sources including firm-level export data, input-output linkages, and robot adoption, we show contrasting implications for Southern...

The Russian attack on Ukraine in February 2022 marked not only a turning point (Zeitenwende) for German security policy but also for German foreign economic policy. From a European standpoint, the war served as a painful reminder of how economic dependencies can be used as political leverage,...