NILS-HENDRIK KLANN, M.A.
Chair of Development Economics
Research Associate / Ph. D. Candidate

E-mail: hhk@uni-goettingen.de

Nils-Hendrik Klann is a research assistant at the Chair of Development Economics at the University of Goettingen and the Chair of International and Development Economics at Heidelberg University. His research interests are in the field of Development Economics, International Trade and Economics of Crime. Currently, he is writing his Ph.D. thesis under supervision of Prof. Stephan Klasen, Ph.D. After his undergraduate studies in economics at the University of Bamberg and Complutense University of Madrid, he completed a Master in International Economics at the University of Goettingen.

Project

• Foreign Aid of Emerging Donors and International Politics (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), with Prof. Dr. Axel Dreher and Andreas Fuchs)

Research themes

• Conflict and Risk in the context of emerging economies
  
  1. Is the fight against Mexican drug cartels beneficial to public security? (With Nicolás Corona Juárez)
  
  2. Paying a Visit: The Dalai Lama Effect on International Trade (with Andreas Fuchs)
  Cambridge Working Papers in Economics No. 1103,
  University of Cambridge, 12/2010
  cege Discussion Paper No. 113,
  University of Goettingen, 10/2010


• ICT and Development
  
  1. Wireless Mesh Networks for Infrastructure-deficient Areas (with Roman Seibel, Tim Waage and Dieter Hogrefe), 2010

Other publications

• EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements: Empirical Evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa (with I. Martínez Zarzoso, F. Nowak-Lehmann and S. Vollmer), Background Paper for the 2009 World Development Report)


Award of Project Grants (Main Contributor)

• Foreign Aid of Emerging Donors and International Politics (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (approx. € 85K) 2011-2012
  
• Indexing Trafficking in Human Beings: Gauging its Trends, Causes and Consequences in the European Dimension, European Commission Prevention of and Fight against Crime Action Grant (approx. € 323K), 2009-2011
  
  



Affiliations


• Heidelberg University | Department of Economics