Research units - Firms, International Trade and Development
Növekedés és versenyképesség
Firms, International Trade and development
Head of unit: Bisztray, Márta
The Firms, International Trade, and Development research group examines the factors affecting the performance of economic organizations, as well as the key drivers of economic growth, with a particular focus on the role of international relations. Our research covers topics such as changes in global value chains, productivity trends, the impact of managers on corporate performance, the role of supplier relationships between companies in corporate learning and technology diffusion, the effects of foreign direct investment, and factors influencing convergence and resilience.
Researchers: Békés, Gábor; Kiss, Gergely Attila; Kónya, István; Koren, Miklós; Molnár, Mátyás; Muraközy, Balázs; Neubrandt, Martin; Szilágyi, Bálint; Váry, Miklós; Vereckei, András; Vonnák, Dzsamila
Contributors: Lindner, Attila; Telegdy, Álmos; Tétényi, László
Research assistants: Barabás, Dániel; Kocsó, Berta; Szalka Áron
Hírek és Információk
Projects
Kiemelt Publikációk
Partnerek
Hírek és Információk
In October 2022, a new 3-year research project was launched with the aim of learning about Global Supply Chains and their impact on the economy. The project entitled “Rethinking Global Supply Chains: measurement, impact and policy” (RETHINK-GSC) is supported by a Horizon Europe grant and it is carried out by an international research consortium under the coordination of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
The KRTK core research team consists of Gábor Békés, Márta Bisztray, Miklós Koren, and Balázs Lengyel. Throughout the project, we work together with researchers of prestigious institutes and universities from Austria (WIFO), Belgium (Bruegel), Denmark (Aarhus), France (Paris Dauphine and CIREM), Germany (IfW Kiel), Ireland (UC Dublin), Italy (Salento), Norway (Oslo) and Poland (Gdansk).
Global supply chains play an important role in today’s economy. While their operation is heavily affected by current economic disruptions and uncertainties, how they evolve in the future will have a crucial impact on the economy worldwide. The aim of the project is to get a better understanding of the global value chain’s changing nature. It focuses on aspects which have a high importance in that but which are difficult to capture, such as the role of knowledge flows, services and intangibles in general.
One goal of the project team is to construct new measures of knowledge and service flows. Resulting research output will inform policy makers about ongoing and expected changes, the resilience of global supply chains to shocks and about their impact on economic and social outcomes in Europe, guiding them in policy design.
The KRTK team is involved in multiple sub-projects. A major contribution is conducting a multi-country firm-level survey, in which we get detailed insight on the nature of knowledge flows in buyer-supplier relationships, addressing recent challenges and future outlooks, including the role of face-to-face communication in transferring knowledge and contributing to innovation.
Kiemelt Publikációk
–
Partnerek
–
