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Birgit Meyer
WIFO
Birgit Meyer is economist at WIFO and works in the Research Group "Industrial, Innovation and International Economics". She is also Lecturer at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and External Research Fellow at the Kiel Centre for Globalization. She holds a degree in Economics from the University of Bonn and received her PhD from Kiel University in 2016. For her dissertation, she received the Faculty Award for outstanding dissertations from Kiel University. During her PhD, she was a research fellow at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Kiel University. Her research focuses on the analysis of the effects of globalisation on innovation, investments, and development. In particular, she focuses on the analysis of the effects of foreign direct investment, multinational enterprises and international trade at the firm and industry level. She has carried out several projects in this area, including projects for institutions such as the World Bank and UNIDO. Her work has been published in academic journals, including The World Economy, World Development and Review of World Economics. She has been giving presentations at numerous conferences and workshops. At the annual meeting of the Austrian Economic Association in 2019, she was awarded the Young Economist Award.
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Yvonne Wolfmayr, Elisabeth Christen, Hendrik Mahlkow, Birgit Meyer, Michael Pfaffermayr
Trade and Welfare Effects of New Trade Policy Instruments
Geoeconomic concepts are gaining importance in EU trade policy. In this context new trade policy instruments are designed to protect the internal market against unfair trade practices, coercive actions as well as to ensure sustainable supply chains and the protection of human rights. The study exten...
2024
Birgit Meyer
Nachhaltigkeit entlang globaler Lieferketten – Wirtschaftliche Effekte der EU-Richtlinie für Sorgfaltspflichten von Unternehmen
Mit der Initiative zur Richtlinie über die Sorgfaltspflicht von Unternehmen im Hinblick auf Nachhaltigkeit (Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence Directive – CSDDD) hat die EU einen wichtigen Schritt unternommen, um verantwortungsbewusstes Handeln von Unternehmen über die Grenzen der EU hinaus zu ...
2024
Gabriel Felbermayr, Klaus Friesenbichler, Markus Gerschberger, Peter Klimek, Birgit Meyer
Designing EU Supply Chain Regulation
The EU Directive on Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence has sparked fierce debate about the regulation of supply chains. The directive’s objectives are aligned with European values. However, it raises concerns that the compliance costs of social and environmental regulations may be privatised in c...
2023
Jan Hurt, Katharina Ledebur, Birgit Meyer, Klaus Friesenbichler, Markus Gerschberger, Stefan Thurner, Peter Klimek
Supply Chain Due Diligence Risk Assessment for the EU: A Network Approach to estimate expected effectiveness of the planned EU directive
Globalization has had undesirable effects on the labor standards embedded in the products we consume. This paper proposes an ex-ante evaluation of supply chain due diligence regulations, such as the EU Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). We construct a full-scale network model der...
2023
Birgit Meyer, Isabel Pham
Human Rights in Supply Chains – An Overview of Due Diligence Obligations for Austrian Firms
Based on the United Nations General Assembly's Universal Declaration of Human Rights from 1948, human rights have become an integral part of the behaviour of states and companies. This study provides an overview of the development of the legal framework for the observance of human rights along ...
