Which jobs and tasks are most susceptive to be substituted by robots or being outsourced to low wage countries? Debates around these questions are highly emotional. Especially since the times of industrial revolution, the fear of technological unemployment has always […]
Digital transformation is a huge topic in China ( 🇨🇳 ) and for the Chinese industry. Therefore, China was mesmerized and happy when Germany introduced the Industry 4.0 strategy in 2012, because it was in their opinion a strategy that […]
In this Episode of the Podcast, Doris Fischer, Professor for China ( 🇨🇳 ) Business and Economics at the University of Wuerzburg and I talk about two interesting topics concerning Chinese economic development: 2-digit growth-rates and the induced process of […]
For several years now, Western companies invest in China and earn good money with that. On the one side the margins of production had been high and on the other side China offered a huge market potential. Therefore, firms went […]
The challenge of really understanding China business and economics Prof. Doris Fischer discovered her passion for China business and economics in the 1980s, a time where this combination in an academic context was not established yet. It used to be […]
Impact of digital transformation on the labor market: Why is digitization,Information of Technologies (IoT), Industrial Revolution 4 or however we call it so special? In the last 25 years, we witnessed rapid technological progress and digitalization – looking at the […]
In public debate and among economists, there has been an emotional debate whether Germany has profited by the Euro(zone) or not. Prof. Bofinger is an advocate of the European idea and he calls the Eurozone – including all weaknesses […]
Part 2: Talk with Prof. Dr. Peter Bofinger, Head of Chair for Monetary Policy and International Economics at University Würzburg, Member of the Council of German Economic Experts, called for the Commission on Global Economic Transformation (CGET) and one of […]
Part 1: Talk with Prof. Dr. Peter Bofinger, Head of Chair for Monetary Policy and International Economics at University Würzburg, Member of the Council of German Economic Experts, called for the Commission on Global Economic Transformation (CGET) and one of […]