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Holger Görg

Holger Görg

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Economics and Finance
Germany
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
70
Citations
21917
World Ranking
464
National Ranking
14

Holger Görg publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Holger Görg sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 316 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Holger Görg D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Holger Görg sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 126 scientists 31 D-Index: 147 scientists 32 D-Index: 157 scientists 33 D-Index: 178 scientists 34 D-Index: 171 scientists 35 D-Index: 141 scientists 36 D-Index: 132 scientists 37 D-Index: 129 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 120 scientists 40 D-Index: 117 scientists 41 D-Index: 113 scientists 42 D-Index: 114 scientists 43 D-Index: 97 scientists 44 D-Index: 115 scientists 45 D-Index: 86 scientists 46 D-Index: 78 scientists 47 D-Index: 83 scientists 48 D-Index: 62 scientists 49 D-Index: 74 scientists 50 D-Index: 50 scientists 51 D-Index: 66 scientists 52 D-Index: 69 scientists 53 D-Index: 55 scientists 54 D-Index: 67 scientists 55 D-Index: 61 scientists 56 D-Index: 62 scientists 57 D-Index: 45 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 47 scientists 60 D-Index: 46 scientists 61 D-Index: 36 scientists 62 D-Index: 37 scientists 63 D-Index: 56 scientists 64 D-Index: 50 scientists 65 D-Index: 32 scientists 66 D-Index: 28 scientists 67 D-Index: 30 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 25 scientists 70 D-Index: 22 scientists 71 D-Index: 21 scientists 72 D-Index: 26 scientists 73 D-Index: 24 scientists 74 D-Index: 23 scientists 75 D-Index: 12 scientists 76 D-Index: 14 scientists 77 D-Index: 15 scientists 78 D-Index: 15 scientists 79 D-Index: 17 scientists 80 D-Index: 17 scientists 81 D-Index: 11 scientists 82 D-Index: 10 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 11 scientists 85 D-Index: 5 scientists 86 D-Index: 9 scientists 87 D-Index: 13 scientists 88 D-Index: 9 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 6 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 8 scientists 93 D-Index: 10 scientists 94 D-Index: 11 scientists 95 D-Index: 6 scientists 96 D-Index: 4 scientists 97 D-Index: 4 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100 D-Index: 8 scientists 101+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

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

  • Multinational Companies and Productivity Spillovers: A Meta‐Analysis

    Holger Gorg;Eric Strobl

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

    Holger Görg;Eric Strobl

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

    Alexander Hijzen;Holger Görg;Robert C. Hine

  • The Effect of R&D Subsidies on Private R&D

    Holger Görg;Eric Strobl

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

    Sourafel Girma;Holger Görg

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

    Holger Görg;Aoife Hanley;Eric Strobl

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

    Sourafel Girma;Holger Görg

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

    Salvador Barrios;Holger Görg;Eric Strobl

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

    Holger Görg;Holger Görg;David Greenaway

  • Multinational Companies and Indigenous Development: An Empirical Analysis

    Holger Görg;Eric Strobl

  • Exporting, linkages and productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment

    Sourafel Girma;Holger Görg;Mauro Pisu

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

    Ingo Geishecker;Holger Görg

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

    Sourafel Girma;Holger Görg

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

    Sourafel Girma;Holger Görg;Holger Görg;Eric Strobl

  • Multinational Companies, Technology Spillovers, and Plant Survival

    Holger Görg;Eric Strobl

  • Does Outsourcing Increase Profitability

    Holger Görg;Aoife Hanley

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

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

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

    Sourafel Girma;Yundan Gong;Holger Görg

  • Cross-border mergers and acquisitions and the role of trade costs

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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Strobl
Eric Strobl University of Bern
Sourafel Girma
Sourafel Girma University of Nottingham
David Greenaway
David Greenaway University of Nottingham
Richard Kneller
Richard Kneller University of Nottingham
Joachim Wagner
Joachim Wagner Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Peter Nunnenkamp
Peter Nunnenkamp Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Daria Taglioni
Daria Taglioni World Bank
Fredrik Sjöholm
Fredrik Sjöholm Research Institute of Industrial Economics
Gabriel Felbermayr
Gabriel Felbermayr Austrian Institute of Economic Research
Oliver Morrissey
Oliver Morrissey University of Nottingham

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