Julia Kubny
Research Title
Chinese Outward FDI in Cambodia and Vietnam – The Impact on Local Labour, Local Firms, and Regional Production Networks
Research Topic
Foreign direct investment, South-South FDI, economic development
Research Description
The recent increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) from emerging economies such as China suggests a closer look at the specific characteristics of South-South FDI flows and their effects on host countries. The research project focuses on China’s outward FDI in the member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and particularly in Cambodia and Vietnam.
Besides describing the profile of Chinese outward FDI in ASEAN, the project investigates direct and indirect effects on local labour and local firms. These will be examined quantitatively and qualitatively based on empirical research conducted in Cambodia, China, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam (including firm surveys in Cambodia and Vietnam).
The PhD project is part of and funded by a research project on the role of emerging economies in regional economic integration at the German Development Institute in Bonn (link).
Start Date and Research form: Part time
Research supervisor(s)
Peter Buckley, Jeremy Clegg, and Hinrich Voss
Background and Experience
09/2007 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) - Researcher
10/2007-12/2007 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva, Development Issues Section, Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise Development, Research on South-South FDI and the role of regional integration
10/2006–01/2007 Project on the role of financial incentives and microcredits in sustainable forestry, Macas, Ecuador, Scholarship from the "ASA-Program", InWEnt gGmbH
08/2006–10/2006 Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Berlin, Department for Trade, Globalization and Investment; intern
08/2005–09/2005 KfW Development Bank, Frankfurt/Main, Department for Water and Sanitation, Middle East / North Africa; intern
10/2002–08/2007 Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Economics; Focus: International Economics
08/2004–05/2005 National University of Singapore, Exchange student: Economics, Development Economics
08/2000–04/2004 Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt/Main and Cologne, Vocational training and temporary placements
Publications and Conference Presentations:
Publications:
Gall, Thomas / Mark Schiffbauer / Julia Kubny (2009): Dynamic effects of foreign direct investment when credit markets are imperfect
BU IED Discussion Paper 188
Kubny, Julia / Erik Lundsgaarde / Raja Fügner Patel (2008): Financing for development series: Foreign direct investment - a means to foster sustainable development?
Bonn: Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (Briefing Paper 12/2008)
Kubny, Julia / Florian Mölders / Peter Nunnekamp (2008): Regional integration and FDI in emerging markets
Kiel: Kiel Institute for the World Economy (Working Paper 1418)
Conference Presentations:
Fudan University, invited presentation on “Regional Integration and FDI in East Asia with a Special Focus on Chinese Outward FDI”, Conference on FDI, Technology Spillovers, and East Asian FTAs, China Center for Economic Studies, Shanghai, 10th-11th- October 2008.
23rd Congress of the European Economic Association, Presentation on “Dynamic Effects of Foreign Direct Investment Under Credit Market Imperfections” (with Dr. Thomas Gall), Universita’ Bocconi, Milan, 27th-31st August 2008.
German Development Institute, Presentation on “Regional Integration and FDI in Emerging Markets” (with Dr. Peter Nunnenkamp), Conference on “Regional Economic Integration Beyond Europe”, Bonn, December 19-20, 2007.