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Samuel Siewers
German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), University of Göttingen
Samuel Siewers is a researcher at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and a PhD candidate at the Chair of Development Economics at the University of Göttingen. He holds a Master's degree in economics from Heidelberg University and a BA, also in economics, from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). His research employs quasi-experimental methods to study questions related to international trade, environmental policy and political economy.
MORE ABOUT SAMUEL SIEWERS >2025
Samuel Siewers
The (other) China shock and the Brazilian soy boom: Cui bono?
Building upon the argument that factor endowments influence distributional outcomes, this paper examines the consequences of the China shock to global food markets for economic inequality in Brazilian municipalities from 1985 to 2020. I propose a new identification strategy that exploits plausibly e...
2024
Samuel Siewers, Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, Leila Baghdadi
Global value chains and firms’ environmental performance
This paper analyzes the link between joining global value chains (GVCs) and firms’ environmental performance. Based on new survey data for firms in countries in Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and MENA, we use propensity score matching (PSM) to compare similar companies that differ in terms of GVC p...
