Kiel Institute Researcher
He Cheng
Kiel Institute Researcher
He Cheng
He Cheng is a doctoral researcher at the Trade Research Center at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Her research interests lie in international trade, with a focus on how firms adjust cross-border investment and global value chain decisions when trade policy becomes more uncertain. In particular, she studies how shocks such as tariff escalations, trade policy uncertainty, and geopolitical frictions affect firms’ foreign direct investment and the reallocation of production across countries.
She earned her B.Sc. in International Business and Trade from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (Shanghai, China) and completed her M.Sc. in Economics at the University of Cologne. She is part of the first ASP doctoral cohort, which started in 2024.
Topics
International TradeGlobalizationForeign Direct InvestmentsCompaniesMain research interests
- Trade policy
- Multinational firms’ exporting and importing
- Micro level panel data
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He Cheng is a doctoral researcher at the Trade Research Center at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Her research interests lie in international trade, with a focus on how firms adjust cross-border investment and global value chain decisions when trade policy becomes more uncertain. In particular, she studies how shocks such as tariff escalations, trade policy uncertainty, and geopolitical frictions affect firms’ foreign direct investment and the reallocation of production across countries.
She earned her B.Sc. in International Business and Trade from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (Shanghai, China) and completed her M.Sc. in Economics at the University of Cologne. She is part of the first ASP doctoral cohort, which started in 2024.
