Dr. Dorothee Flaig

Scientific Staff

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University of Hohenheim
International Agricultural Trade and Food Security (490b)
D-70593 Stuttgart

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Since 2018 Dorothee Flaig is research associate at the chair of International Agricultural Trade and Food Security (490b), University of Hohenheim (Germany) where she is teaching on master and bachelor level and conducting independent research. Her research is currently concentrated in climate related policies and sustainable agricultural production where she applies CGE models to analyse trade-offs between different SDGs, focussing on economic implications and effects on food security in a globally connected world. A second focus of research lies on food security and migration with emphasis on Africa. Key competences are single country and global CGE models.

Dorothee Flaig studied Economics at the University of Hohenheim (Germany) specialising in Agricultural economics and received a Doctoral degree from the agricultural faculty of the University of Hohenheim. During her doctoral studies she specialised in single country CGE modelling, the topic of her doctoral research was factor mobility in Palestine and Israel. Her studies succeeded a 5-year employment at the OECD in Paris (France) where Dorothee was developing a global CGE model on trade and its related database based on GTAP and OECD sources. The work at the OECD focussed around the analysis of trade restrictions, i.e., trade agreements, non-tariff measures, and Global Value Chains.

CV

Employment

Since 06/2018

  • Research associate at University of Hohenheim, International Agricultural Trade and Food Security (490b), Stuttgart, Germany
  • Tasks: Teaching in various courses related to macroeconomics, international trade and food security on Master- and Bachelor-level. Supervision of Master and Bachelor thesis.
  • Independent research in the field of climate related policies, international trade, key aspects involve Global Value Chains and the effect of policies (climate and domestic) in a globally connected world. Another focus of research lies on food security and migration with emphasis on Africa. Key competences are single country and global CGE models.

09/2013-05/2018             
Modeller/Trade Analyst at the OECD in the Trade and Agriculture Directorate (TAD), Development Division, Paris, France.
Tasks: Development of a global CGE model on trade, development of policy modules. Development of a global SAM-database based on GTAP and OECD sources. Support in and organisation of the collection and analysis of supplemental data.
Conducting analysis, writing, and presentation of official reports and conference papers. Organisation and participation in model trainings.

03/2009-09/2013             
Research assistant at the Chair for Agricultural and Food Policy (Prof. H. Grethe), University of Hohenheim, Germany.
Research focus: The economic integration of agricultural and labour markets between Israel and Palestine, single country CGE modelling. Funded by the German Research Foundation. Teaching tutorials on Master- and Bachelor-level.

02/2008-04/2008
Internship at ‘Spezialitätencompagnie’ in Mössingen, Germany; Coffee roaster, retail and wholesale of food specialities

08/2007-09/2007
Internship at Chipunga Farms Ltd. in Mzuzu, Malawi; Farm with coffee, macadamia and milk.

 

Education

04/2014
‘Baden-Württemberg Certificate’: completion of a program in higher education pedagogy at the centre for educational development of the universities of the state Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

03/2009-01/2014
Doctoral candidate at the Chair for Agricultural and Food Policy
(Prof. H. Grethe), University of Hohenheim, Germany.
Degree: Dr.sc.agr. / Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences
Topic of dissertation: ‘Factor mobility and heterogeneous labour in Computable General Equilibrium Modelling’.
Major subjects: The depiction of factor markets in CGE models, labour mobility and productivity effects, factor reallocation costs.

07/2013
Globe model course, at USNA, Annapolis, USA, 20-26 July 2013.

10/2003-09/2008             
Studies of Economics at the University of Hohenheim, Germany. Degree: Dipl.-oec (Univ.) – German equivalent of M.Sc.
Specialisation: international trade and agricultural economy of developing countries.
Topic of thesis: ‘Budget support or project related measures in development aid’.

Publications

Journal Articles

Journal Articles

Berndt, M., Kirsten Boysen-Urban, Simon Ehjeij, Amelia Espey, Arndt Feuerbacher, Dorothee Flaig, Tobias Heimann, Sebastian Hess, Markus Kempen, Franziska Schünemann, Christine Wieck (2022). Implications of Russia’s War in Ukraine for the Global Agri-Food Sector – An Ex-Ante Assessment using Different Simulation Models. German Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 71(3), p. 134-149. doi.org/10.30430/gjae.2022.0310

Flaig, D. and J. Greenville (2021): Trade liberalisation in APEC and global value chain participation: what can value added indicators tell? Journal of Economic Integration, 36(2), p. 308-338. doi.org/10.11130/JEI.2021.36.2.308

Bekkers, E., Antimiani, A. , Carrico, C., Flaig, D., Fontagne, L., Foure, J., Francois, J., Itakura, K., Kutlina-Dimitrova, Z., Powers, W., Saveyn, B., Teh, R., Van Tongeren, F. and M. Tsigas (2020): Modelling Trade and Other Economic Interactions Between Countries in Baseline Projections. Journal of Global Economic Analysis 5(1), p. 273-345. doi.org/10.21642/JGEA.050107AF

Flaig, D. and Stone, S. (2017): Local content requirements versus tariff equivalents: How we measure matters. World Economy, 40: 931–948. doi.org10.1111/twec.12426.

Araujo, S. and Flaig, D. (2017): Trade restrictions in Brazil: who pays the price? Journal of Economic Integration. 32/2 June 2017: 283-323. www.jstor.org/stable/44219010

Luckmann, J. J., D. Flaig, H. Grethe, K. Siddig (2016). Modelling sectorally differentiated water prices - Water preservation and welfare gains through price reform? Water Resources Management, 30/7: 2327-2342. doi.org/10.1007/s11269-015-1204-7

Flaig, D., Siddig, K., Grethe, H., Luckmann, J. and McDonald, S. (2013): Relaxing Israeli Restrictions on Palestinian Labour: Who Benefits? Economic Modelling, 31: 143–150. doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2012.11.052

Flaig, D., Rubin, O. and Siddig, K. (2013): Imperfect competition, border protection and consumer boycott: The future of the dairy industry in Israel. Journal of Policy Modeling, 35: 838-851. doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2013.01.001

Books

Books

Flaig. D., and S. Stone (forthcoming). Localization Measures: A Global Perspective. In: Grossman, G. and L. Yan Ing (forthcoming).Local Content Requirements: Promises and Pitfalls’. Routledge

Van Tongeren, F., Messent, J., Flaig, D. and Arriola, C. (2014): Effects of removing export taxes on steel and steel-related raw materials. In: Fliess (Ed., 2014): Export restrictions in raw materials trade - Facts, fallacies and better practices. OECD, Paris, France.

Policy reports

Policy reports

Flaig, D., Shutes, L. and A. Mainar-Causapé (forthcoming). Application and further development of tool kit to assess the impacts of implementation of response measures for Maldives. UNFCCC.

Flaig, D. and S. McDonald (2021). Impacts of response measures. In: Marcu, A., Monciatti, M. and A. Cosbey (2021). Reporting on the Impacts of Response Measures Ghana Case Study.  ERCST – Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition. https://ercst.org/reporting-on-the-impacts-of-response-measures-ghana-case-study/

Greenville, J., Kawasaki, K. Flaig, D. and C. Carrico (2019), Influencing GVCs through agro-food policy and reform. OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers No. 125, 22 Feb 2019. OECD Publishing, Paris. https://doi.org/10.1787/9ce888e0-en

Kierzenkowski R, Gal, P., Fulop, G., Flaig, D. and F. van Tongeren (2018): "Sectoral and regional distribution of export shocks: What do two hundred thousand UK firm observations say?," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1501, OECD Publishing.

Flaig, D., Haugh, D., Kowalski, P., Rouzet, D. and F. van Tongeren (2018). "Miracle or Mirage: What role can trade policies play in tackling global trade imbalances?," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1473, OECD Publishing. http://www.oecd.org/officialdocuments/publicdisplaydocumentpdf/?cote=ECO/WKP(2018)21&docLanguage=En

OECD (2018), Market opening, growth and employment. OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers, No. 214, OECD Publishing, Paris. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/8a34ce38-en

Gray, E., Adenäuer, L., Flaig, D. and F. van Tongeren (2017), “Evaluation of the relevance of border protection for agriculture in Switzerland”, OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers, No. 109, OECD Publishing, Paris. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/6e3dc493-en

Sorescu, S. and Flaig, D. (2017), “Economy-Wide impacts of Trade Facilitation: A METRO model simulation”. OECD, TAD/TC/WP(2016)15/FINAL. http://www.oecd.org/officialdocuments/publicdisplaydocumentpdf/?cote=TAD/TC/WP(2016)15/FINAL&docLanguage=En

De Backer, K. and D. Flaig (2017) “The future of global value chains: “business as usual” or a "new normal”?” OECD Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Papers No 41, July 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/d8da8760-en

OECD (2016), Evolving Agricultural Policies and Markets: Implications for Multilateral Trade Reform, OECD Publishing, Paris. http://www.oecd.org/publications/evolving-agricultural-policies-and-markets-9789264264991-en.htm

Global Economic Outlook, November 2016 (Box 1.3 “The impact of changes in global trade costs”) http://www.oecd.org/eco/outlook/general-assessment-of-the-macroeconomic-situation-oecd-economic-outlook-november-2016.pdf

OECD (2016), “The Economic Consequences of Brexit: A Taxing Decision”, OECD Economic Policy Paper, No. 16, April 2016, OECD Publishing, Paris. http://www.oecd.org/fr/eco/the-economic-consequences-of-brexit-a-taxing-decision.htm

Araújo, S. and D. Flaig (2016), “Quantifying the Effects of Trade Liberalisation in Brazil: A Computable General Equilibrium Model (CGE) Simulation”, OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No. 1295, OECD Publishing, Paris. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/5jm0qwmff2kf-en

Stone, S., J. Messent and D. Flaig (2015), “Emerging Policy Issues: Localisation Barriers to Trade”, OECD Trade Policy Papers, No. 180, OECD Publishing, Paris. dx.doi.org/10.1787/5js1m6v5qd5j-en

Other Publications

Other Publications

Flaig, D. (2021). Sind lokale Ernährungssysteme krisenfester?. Welternährung 06/21. https://www.welthungerhilfe.de/welternaehrung/rubriken/agrar-ernaehrungspolitik/welcher-agrarhandel-macht-widerstandsfaehig/?utm_source=emailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=welternaehrung&utm_content=we-

Flaig, D., K. Kawasaki and J. Greenville (2018). METRO Development: The ICIO-TIVA-Module, A method to analyse global value chains with METRO, OECD METRO model development series, TAD/TC/CA/WP/RD(2018)1.

Flaig, D. and C. Arriola (2018), METRO Model User Guide: V2 Interface, April 2018, https://community.oecd.org/docs/DOC-105175.

Flaig, D. and Sorescu, S. (2017), “Metro development: Modelling Non-Tariff Measures and Estimation of Trade Facilitation Impacts”, http://www.oecd.org/officialdocuments/publicdisplaydocumentpdf/?cote=TAD/TC/WP%282016%2920/FINAL&docLanguage=En

OECD (2015): METRO version 1: Model documentation. OECD Trade Policy Working Paper. http://www.oecd.org/officialdocuments/publicdisplaydocumentpdf/?cote=TAD/TC/WP%282014%2924/FINAL&docLanguage=En

OECD (Araujo, S. and Flaig, D.) (2015): The simulated effects of lower trade barriers in Brazil. Technical background paper, Economic Survey of the Brazil. OECD, 2015.

Siddig, K., Flaig, D., Luckmann, J. and Grethe, H. (2011): A 2004 Social Accounting Matrix for Israel. Agricultural Economics Working Paper Series (Hohenheimer Agrarökonomische Arbeitsberichte). Institute of Agricultural Policy and Markets, University of Hohenheim, Germany.

Siddig, K., Flaig, D., Luckman, J. and Grethe, H. (2011): Technical Documentation of the 2004 Input-Output Table for Israel. GTAP 8 Database Documentation. https://www.gtap.agecon.purdue.edu/databases/IO/table_display.asp?IO_ID=439.

Current Research Projects

Application and further development of tool kit to assess the impacts of implementation of response measures for Maldives

Project duration: 2022 - 2024

The project, funded by UNFCCC in the framework of the Katowice Committee of Experts, develops and applies a toolkit of modelling tools to assess the impacts of the implementation of response measures with recursive dynamic pathways, country level emissions and several SDG indicators, and provides capacity building. The results illustrate the insights CGE analyses can provide for Small Island Developing States such as the Maldives.

Involved persons
  • D. Flaig (PI)
  • A. Mainar Causapé
  • S McDonald
  • L Shutes
Sponsors
  •  UNFCCC

Completed Research Projects

Enhance the modelling of inter-regional migration in the DEMETRA model

Project duration: 2022 - 2023

Internal migration flows, rural-rural and rural-urban, in most African countries far exceed international movements. Nevertheless, the focus in migration studies in Africa lies on international migration. The project funded by EU-JRC develops a migration module that depicts internal migration flows in an empirically based framework for the single country CGE model DEMETRA. The migration module is implemented for a model for Ethiopia

Involved persons
Sponsors
  •  EU-JRC

Assessing the impact of EU CBAM on Saudi Arabia

Project duration: 2022

MASQ Ltd., London

Involved persons
  • D. Flaig (PI)
  • S McDonald
  • L Shutes
  • K Boysen-Urban

Literature review on inter-regional migration in sub-Saharan Africa

Project duration: 2021

Joint Research Centre, European Commission

Involved persons

 

 

Assessing the impacts of response measures: Ghana

Project duration: 2021

European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition (ERCST), Brussels

Involved persons