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Pamina Koenig
University of Rouen & Paris School of Economics
Pamina Koenig is a Professor of Economics at the University of Rouen and an Associate Researcher at Paris School of Economics. Her research interests are in international trade, trade policies and the political economy of NGOs. She has published in leading academic journals. Professor Koenig holds a PhD in Economics from the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and a Master’s Degree in Economics from Université Libre de Bruxelles.
MORE ABOUT PAMINA KOENIG >Mar 15, 2024
Pamina Koenig, Sebastian Krautheim, Claudius Löhnert, Thierry Verdier
Local global watchdogs: Trade, sourcing and the internationalization of social activism
International NGO campaigns criticizing firms for infringements along their internationalized value chains are a salient feature of economic globalization. We argue that understanding the international patterns of NGO campaigns requires accounting for the geography of their targets’ economic activ...
Mar 15, 2024
Pamina Koenig and Sandra Poncet
The effects of the Rana Plaza collapse on the sourcing choices of French importers
This paper analyzes the effects of a major reputational shock affecting textile importers from Bangladesh. The collapse of the Rana Plaza building in April 2013 generated a surge of activism and media coverage specifically targeting the firms that sourced from the factories affected by the disaster....
Jul 15, 2021
Sophie Hatte, Pamina Koenig
The Geography of NGO Activism against Multinational Corporations
To what extent do Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) monitor global value chains? While NGOs regularly denounce the behavior of multinational corporations throughout the world, their motivations for choosing campaign targets remain largely unknown. Using a new dataset on activists’ campaigns to...
Jan 1, 2019
Pamina Koenig, Sandra Poncet
Social responsibility scandals and trade
This paper studies the effect of social responsibility scandals on the imports of consumer products, by focusing on an event which generated massive consumer mobilization against neglecting firms, namely the collapse of the Rana Plaza building affecting the textile industry in Bangladesh. We investi...
Jan 1, 2019
Pamina Koenig and Sandra Poncet
Reputation and (un)fair trade: Effects on French importers from the Rana Plaza collapse
This paper analyzes the effects of a major reputational shock affecting textile importers fromBangladesh. The collapse of the Rana Plaza building in April 2013 generated a surge of activismand media coverage specifically targeting the firms that sourced from the factories affected bythe disaster. Us...
