Globalization and the Global South
- Regional and Global Integration of Production and Trade
- Transnational Value Chains
- International Institutions and Macroeconomic Regimes
- Monetary Development Issues
- Migration
- Remittances
Current Research Projects:
- Industrial Policy Space in Emerging Economies – The Case of Chile and the Energy Raw Materials Chapter in the EU-Chile Free Trade Agreement
- Value Chain Restructuring, Growth Regimes and Economic and Social Resilience
- Digitalization of Value Chains in the Retail Sector
Finalised Research Projects:
- Martina Metzger: Financial digitalisation of rural areas in Cameroon
- Christina Teipen, Hansjörg Herr, Lukas Handley, Anne Martin: Varieties of COVID-19 Reactions and Changing Modes of Globalization in the Global South
- Christina Teipen, Hansjörg Herr, Petra Dünhaupt, Fabian Mehl: Global Value Chains – Economic and Social Upgrading
- Christina Teipen, Hansjörg Herr, Helena Gräf, Petra Dünhaupt, Fabian Mehl: Global Value Chains in Germany, India and Brazil after COVID19 - Beginning of a New Type of Globalization?
- Hansjörg Herr, Megan Ward, Jennifer Pédussel Wu: South Asian Free Trade Area and Food Trade: Implications for Regional Security
- Bea Ruoff, Hansjörg Herr, Frank Hoffer, Christoph Scherrer: Combating Inequality
- Jennifer Pédussel Wu, Salmai Qari, Clark Banach, Behzad Azarhoushang: A Database for Investigating Foreign Direct Investment
Current PhD Projects:
- Ignacio Silva Neira: FDI and innovation dynamics in developing countries
- Fabian Mehl: Economic and Social Upgrading in the Central Eastern European IT Services and Business Process Outsourcing Industry
Finalised PhD Projects:
- Alessandro Bramucci: Offshoring, Employment and Wages
- Sarah Godar: Empirical analysis of corporate tax avoidance and tax havens
Published Master’s Thesis Projects:
- Candelaria Fernández Tucci: Original Sin and South-South Cooperation: Insights for the Mercosur from the Experience of the Asian Bond Market Initiative, Working Paper, No 214/2023
- Dennis Andreas Gegenfurtner, The Causes of Original Sin: An Empirical Investigation of Emerging Market and Developing Countries, Working Paper, No. 174/2021
- Dana Butler, Horizontal inequality and grievances: A lethal combination? IPE Working Paper, No. 168/2021
- Valeria Jimenez: Wage shares and demand regimes in Central America: An empirical analysis for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama, 1970-2016, IPE Working Paper 151/2020.
- Mehmet Oğuzhan Okumuş: How Berlin Attracts the Turkish “New Wave”: Comparison of Economic and Socio Cultural Pull Factors for Highly Skilled Immigrants, IPE Working Paper 142/2020.
- Earta Lauka: Development Paths: A Case for Public Investment as the Alternative to the Washington Consensus, IPE Working Paper 108/2018.
- Marta Kulesza: The analysis of hyperinflation in Venezuela in a Post-Keynesian framework, IPE Working Paper 93/2017.
- Vera Buttmann: The clash of rural-urban migrants and real estate investors on Phnom Penh’s housing market –Prospects for garment workers, IPE Working Paper 91/2017.
- Theresa Balliester Reis: Why are policy real interest rates so high in Brazil? An analysisof the determinants of the Central Bank of Brazil’s real interest rate, IPE Working Paper 80/2016.
- Karsten Köhler: Currency Devaluations, Aggregate Demand, and Debt Dynamics in an Economy with Foreign Currency Liabilities, IPE Working Paper 78/2016.
- Bruno Tiago Tomio: Understanding the Brazilian economic demand regime: A Kaleckian approach, IPE Working Paper 73/2016.
- Maria Franke: When one country’s land gain is another country’s land loss ... The social, economic and ecological dimensions of sand extractionin the context of world-systems analysis on the example of Singapore’s sand imports, IPE Working Paper 36/2014.
- Sören Gottschalch: Urbanization in China and how urban housing demand can be met, IPE Working Paper 27/2013.