Despite a general agreement that piracy poses a significant threat to maritime shipping, empirical evidence regarding its economic consequences remains scarce. This paper combines firm-level Chinese customs data and ship position data with information on pirate attacks to investigate how...

Despite a general agreement that piracy poses a significant threat to maritime shipping, empirical evidence regarding its economic consequences remains scarce. This paper takes a step towards filling the gap by combining firm-level Chinese customs data with information on pirate attacks to...

Mit dem avisierten Austritt Großbritanniens aus der Europäischen Union am 31. Januar 2020 bleibt Unsicherheit über die zukünftigen Handelsbeziehungen bestehen. In der Übergangsphase ab dem Austrittsdatum bleibt Großbritannien zwar im Europäischen Binnenmarkt und damit in einer Zollunion...

In ihrem Kiel Policy Brief zeigen die Autoren einige der Abhängigkeiten Deutschlands von China auf, um mögliche Auswirkungen eines Exportstopps chinesischer Produkte nach Deutschland besser verstehen zu können. Sie stellen fest, dass direkt aus China bezogene Vorprodukte einen Anteil von 0,6...

This paper investigates the impact of restrictive TBTs on firms' extensive margins (export participation and exit probability), intensive margins (export value) and pricing strategy (export price). To this end, product-level restrictive TBTs and firm-level export are combined and an...

Despite a general agreement that piracy poses a significant threat to maritime shipping, empirical evidence regarding its economic consequences remains scarce. This paper takes a step towards filling the gap by combining firm-level Chinese customs data with information on pirate attacks to...

This paper investigates the impact of restrictive TBTs on firms’ extensive margins (export participation and exit probability), intensive margins (export value) and pricing strategy (export price). To this end, product-level restrictive TBTs and firm-level export are combined and an...

Manpower constraints are the pervasive lack of specialized high- and low-skill workers, irrespective of the wage firms might offer. For a panel of German firms, we show manpower-constrained firms have higher capacity utilization and longer backlog of orders (measured in months). They are more...

Manpower constraints are the pervasive lack of specialized high- and low-skill workers, irrespective of the wage firms might offer.