Alexander Sandkamp

Prof. Dr. Alexander Sandkamp serves as an Assistant Professor for Quantitative Trade Policy at Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, a Senior Researcher in the Research Group "Trade Policy" at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, and a Fellow at the Kiel Centre for Globalization (KCG). His research focuses on trade policy, empirical international economics, and China's role in global trade systems.

Dr. Sandkamp's research expertise spans multiple critical areas of international trade:

• Trade policy mechanisms and their economic impacts
• Empirical analysis of international trade patterns using firm-level data
• China's role in global trade and investment flows
• Maritime trade security and piracy impacts on shipping routes
• Antidumping duties and trade barrier effectiveness
• Global value chain dynamics and decoupling scenarios

His research methodology frequently combines firm-level Chinese customs data with specialized datasets to produce robust empirical evidence on trade policy questions. Recent work demonstrates how maritime piracy causes firms to switch from ocean to air shipping and how antidumping duties disproportionately affect Chinese exporters due to non-market economy status considerations. His decoupling research using computable general equilibrium modeling shows that while sanctions against Russia would cause significant welfare losses for Russia (nearly 10%), the welfare impact on Western allies would be relatively small (-0.17%).

Dr. Sandkamp contributes to multiple KCG research projects examining global supply chains, including cross-cultural differences in corporate social responsibility perception, experimental studies of moral responsibility in global supply chains, modeling economic and social dimensions of global supply chains, and examining environmental regulation impacts on green innovation.