Holger Görg (born 1970) is a German economist who currently works as Professor of International Economics at the University of Kiel.
[2] In 2009, he was awarded the Gossen Prize for his contributions to the study of firms' decisions to invest, export and outsource parts of their value chains abroad.
[4] Additionally, Görg maintains affiliations with the Tuborg Research Centre for Globalisation and Firms at Aarhus University, and the IZA Institute of Labor Economics.
His current research focuses on the activities of multinational firms, in particular their international outsourcing and exporting, as well as the application of panel data econometrics at the micro level.
Therein, he has in particular researched - often with Strobl - how productivity spills over from multinationals to a host country's domestic firms, e.g. through worker mobility, demonstration effects, and technological competition.
[12] In another study on the Irish manufacturing sector, Görg and Strobl find that public R&D subsidies of any size don't affect establishments' private R&D spending if they belong to a multinational, whereas large R&D grants to domestic plants are found to crowd out private R&D spending and small ones to promote it.
[15] In later work with Strobl and Frank Walsh, Görg finds that this foreign ownership wage premium can likely be attributed to the higher gain in productivity and firm-specificity of foreign-owned firms' on-the-job training, as the wage premium of foreign-owned firms' workers is only earned gradually and by those who receive on-the-job training.
[21] With Girma, he also finds that British establishments' ability to benefit from productivity spillovers from FDI depends on their absorptive capacity.