2026 Holger Görg: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	70	464	415	14	12	316	21917

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Germany Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Germany Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Germany Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Germany Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Holger Görg is affiliated with Kiel University in Germany and specializes in the field of Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their research predominantly focuses on areas such as Global Trade and Economics, Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, Corporate Finance and Governance, International Business and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Economic Growth and Development, Economic Zones and Regional Development, and Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis.

Their work spans several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Accounting, Strategy and Management, and Information Systems. Görg's publications appear frequently in the SSRN Electronic Journal, with a total of ten publications there, as well as multiple contributions to Wirtschaftsdienst. Additional publication venues include Small Business Economics, European Economic Review, and China & World Economy.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Görg are:

"Place-based policies and firm performance: Evidence from Special Economic Zones in India" (2024), European Economic Review
"Africa's businesswomen - underfunded or underperforming?" (2023), Small Business Economics
"Foreign Divestment - Crisis or Chance for China's Innovation Edge?" (2022), China & World Economy
"Die Folgen von Covid-19 für die Globalisierung" (2020), Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik
"AI Unboxed and Jobs: A Novel Measure and Firm-Level Evidence from Three Countries" (2024), SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent collaborators include Aoife Hanley, Cecília Hornok, Anna Jacobs, Saskia Meuchelböck, and Sourafel Girma, each of whom has co-authored multiple papers alongside Görg.

Best Publications

Much ado about nothing? do domestic firms really benefit from foreign direct investment?

Holger Gorg;David Greenaway

2815
Citations
Multinational Companies and Productivity Spillovers: A Meta‐Analysis

Holger Gorg;Eric Strobl

1485
Citations
Spillovers from Foreign Firms through Worker Mobility: An Empirical Investigation*

Holger Görg;Eric Strobl

787
Citations
International Outsourcing and the Skill Structure of Labour Demand in the United Kingdom

Alexander Hijzen;Holger Görg;Robert C. Hine

634
Citations
The Effect of R&D Subsidies on Private R&D

Holger Görg;Eric Strobl

602
Citations
Evaluating the foreign ownership wage premium using a difference-in-differences matching approach

Sourafel Girma;Holger Görg

525
Citations
Productivity effects of international outsourcing: evidence from plant-level data

Holger Görg;Aoife Hanley;Eric Strobl

484
Citations
Outsourcing, foreign ownership and productivity: evidence from UK establishment level data

Sourafel Girma;Holger Görg

471
Citations
Explaining firms' export behaviour: R&D, spillovers and the destination market

Salvador Barrios;Holger Görg;Eric Strobl

440
Citations
Much Ado About Nothing? Do Domestic Firms Really Benefit from Foreign Investment?

Holger Görg;Holger Görg;David Greenaway

395
Citations
Multinational Companies and Indigenous Development: An Empirical Analysis

Holger Görg;Eric Strobl

350
Citations
Exporting, linkages and productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment

Sourafel Girma;Holger Görg;Mauro Pisu

339
Citations
Winners and losers: a micro‐level analysis of international outsourcing and wages

Ingo Geishecker;Holger Görg

313
Citations
Foreign direct investment, spillovers and absorptive capacity: evidence from quantile regressions

Sourafel Girma;Holger Görg

308
Citations
Exports, International Investment, and Plant Performance: Evidence from a Non-Parametric Test

Sourafel Girma;Holger Görg;Holger Görg;Eric Strobl

288
Citations
Multinational Companies, Technology Spillovers, and Plant Survival

Holger Görg;Eric Strobl

278
Citations
Does Outsourcing Increase Profitability

Holger Görg;Aoife Hanley

276
Citations
R&D and exporting: A comparison of British and Irish firms

Sourafel Girma;Holger Görg;Holger Görg;Holger Görg;Aoife Hanley;Aoife Hanley

272
Citations
What Determines Innovation Activity in Chinese State-owned Enterprises? The Role of Foreign Direct Investment

Sourafel Girma;Yundan Gong;Holger Görg

259
Citations
Cross-border mergers and acquisitions and the role of trade costs

Alexander Hijzen;Alexander Hijzen;Holger Görg;Holger Görg;Miriam Manchin

256
Citations
Foreign Direct Investment, Agglomerations and Demonstration Effects: An Empirical Investigation *

Frank Barry;Frank Barry;Frank Barry;Holger Görg;Holger Görg;Holger Görg;Eric Strobl;Eric Strobl;Eric Strobl

255
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Strobl University of Bern

Sourafel Girma University of Nottingham

David Greenaway University of Nottingham

Richard Kneller University of Nottingham

Joachim Wagner Leuphana University of Lüneburg

Peter Nunnenkamp Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Daria Taglioni World Bank

Fredrik Sjöholm Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Gabriel Felbermayr Austrian Institute of Economic Research

Oliver Morrissey University of Nottingham

External Links

Wikipedia of Holger Görg Personal website of Holger Görg Google Scholar page

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