🌏 🐍 🇨🇳 Good morning from Berlin! Our 2nd Kiel-Göttingen-CEPR Conference on China in the Global Economy is underway. A full room, warm opening by the organizers, and an excellent keynote by Ruixue Jia to kick things off! Looking forward to what’s next!

🌏🇨🇳🐍We continued with a live edition of the Global China Conversations - diving into industrial policy and the US‑China‑EU triangle. Great impulses from and engaging discussion with Heiwai Tang, Sabrina Schulz & Moritz Schularick, moderated by Julia Fiedler Table.Briefings

🌏 🇨🇳 🐍 The afternoon featured in-depth dives into economic research: 12 presentations across four sessions on trade war, international lending & finance, development, innovation & science. The day concludes with the Kiel‑MERICS Policy Panel - now underway. Kiel Institute China Initiative

Measuring international power stemming from trade and investigating the geopolitical consequences and strategic causes of such power, from Ernest Liu and David Yang nber.org/papers/w34006

🆕 Special Economic Zones in India: Engines of economic growth or inefficiency? Today on VoxDev, Holger Görg (Kiel Institute (IfW Kiel)) & Alina Mulyukova (Uni Göttingen) discuss firm productivity in public versus private SEZs in India: voxdev.org/topic/firms/sp…

In a new op-ed Esther Duflo reminds us: “'Development aid is not a waste of public money.” 📖 Read via Le Monde: lemonde.fr/en/opinion/art…

Wow. Mark Schieritz Europäer - schaut euch das an.

This is an incredibly important paper, just published in China Economic Review. It finds that China’s low-carbon technology exports *significantly* reduce partner countries’ CO2 emissions. China’s clean energy push is clearly helping the world decarbonise.

I'm happy to share an open letter to the Israeli government from 23 professors of economics across the US and Europe (including myself): drive.google.com/file/d/1D_Sv3J…

I highly recommend this Lex Fridman interview with Keyu Jin. I don’t agree with Jin on everything - for example, we diverge on theories of the state - but I think she’s an important voice on China’s economy.

#ZEW-Ökonom Philipp Boeing erklärt im Interview mit DIE ZEIT, dass #China sich von der Werkbank der Welt zum Innovationsstandort entwickelt habe. China betreibe demnach seit etwa 20 Jahren sehr gezielte #Industriepolitik, die nun ihre Wirkung entfalte. zeit.de/wirtschaft/202…

Almost a decade ago I was the Harvard economist that said that bitcoin was more likely to be worth $100 than 100k. What did I miss? I was far too optimistic about the US coming to its senses about sensible cryptocurrency regulation; why would policymakers want to facilitate tax

APPLY: We (@wiwigoettingen) invite applications for a 📢 Professorship in Development Economics & Sustainability Policy combined with Head of Research Department position “Transformation of Economic and Social Systems” at IDOS in Bonn. Apply by 17 Sept 2025. 👇 #econjobs

📢 Call for Papers Global Spillovers Amid Shifting Policies Joint BIS • BoE • ECB • IMF • JIE Conference 📍 Washington, D.C. | 🗓 April 28–29, 2026 📝 Submit by Nov 30, 2025 Bank for International Settlements @BankofEngland @ECB IMF

Is attending Davos more than a Boondoggle? “There’s no systematic impact on stock prices …  and no evidence that credit rating agencies view Davos attendance as improving creditworthiness,” says Andreas Fuchs Uni Göttingen Full episode here: cepr.org/voxeu/voxtalks

Is Davos more than a boondoggle? Every year, the World Economic Forum in Davos brings together CEOs, policymakers, and world leaders. But beyond the photo ops and panels—does it really deliver value for businesses? In this CEPR podcast, Andreas Fuchs Uni Göttingen joins

📚 In summer 2023, my book Causal Analysis was published with The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social. Just two years later😉 I’m very happy to share that the lecture slides are now freely available in both PDF and LaTeX (as zip files), along with the datasets and R/Python code: 👉 unifr.ch/appecon/en/res…

Great to see that Mokyr, Aghion, and Howitt receive the Nobel Prize in Economics. Well-deserved! The research by Aghion and Howitt (and their co-authors) is very inspiring. My students in "Economic Growth" also appreciate their textbook (The course gets good evaluations, at

🌍 Starting in three weeks: “Understanding the Shifting Landscape of African Economic Development”. On November 13–14, 2025, leading economists and policymakers will gather at the Bundesentwicklungsministerium in Berlin for a 2-day conference organized by the Kiel Institute and CEPR, in