The interview was published under the title “China’s Economic Expansion: State-enabled Does Not Necessarily Mean State-directed” and addresses China’s role in global value chains, European competitiveness, and foreign investment.

The article by Lei Li and Niklas Kirsamer examines how geoeconomic restrictions can influence innovation, technological development, and the demand for research and STEM skills.

A new VoxEU article co-authored by Harald Fadinger, Lei Li, Sophia Praetorius, and Jan Schymik examines how the US-China trade war affected global production networks and manufacturing activity in third countries.

The second Göttingen China Workshop on Globalization, Macroeconomics, and Development takes place on July 2 and 3, 2026, at the Central Lecture Hall ZHG in Göttingen.

The third Kiel-Göttingen-CEPR Conference “China in the Global Economy” takes place on June 30 and July 1, 2026, in Berlin.

The conference “International Economics in Times of Geoeconomic Challenges” takes place on June 8 and 9, 2026, in Bad Homburg.

The paper by Jingting Fan and Lei Li studies how capital goods imports affect skill acquisition and migration in China and is published in the Journal of International Economics.

The second Kiel-Göttingen-CEPR Conference “China in the Global Economy” took place on July 17 and 18, 2025, at the Leibniz Association in Berlin.

The Göttingen China Workshop on Globalization and Development, held on July 15 and 16, 2025, provided a vibrant platform for scholarly exchange between researchers from China, Germany, and other European institutions.

The workshop “Trade, Firms, and Economic Development” took place on September 7 and 8, 2023, at Hotel Hardtwald in Bad Homburg.

Research by Lei Li and coauthors examines the asymmetric tariff pass-through between China and the US during the US-China trade war. The study finds notable differences in tariff pass-through between the two countries.