Trade, Globalisation and Security
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Foreign Direct Investment in Countries with Weak Institutions
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe FDI behavior of a MNE facing a weak institutional environment in the host country is analyzed. Red tape can be strategically reduced by...
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The Sub-prime Crisis: Causal Distortions and Regulatory Reform
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: crisis...
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Trade, Globalisation and Emerging Protectionism Since the Crisis
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe global economic crisis, and governments’ responses to the crisis, did not precipitate a descent into 1930s-style protectionism. That is a...
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The Special Safeguard Fiasco in the WTO: The Perils of Inadequate Analysis and Negotiation
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: WTOThe July 2008 attempt by a group of ministers to agree on modalities for the WTO’s Doha Round broke down in part because they could not agree on a...
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Regional Economic Integration in Asia: The Track Record and Prospects
By: Razeen SallyThis is the season for regional-integration initiatives in Asia. There is talk of region-wide FTAs, and there are east-Asian initiatives on financial...
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The Common Agricultural Policy and the French, EU and Global Economies
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and EU membership have undergone big changes under the 2003 reforms. This has changed the incentives faced by...
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Protectionism Online: Internet Censorship and International Trade Law
Internet is a global market place. The rapid development of the Internet, and especially of Internet-based com- merce, has largely taken place...
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Green Protectionism in the European Union: How Europe’s Biofuels Policy and the Renewable Energy Directive Violate WTO Commitments
By: Fredrik ErixonWhat happened to the professed environmental goal to substitute fossil fuels wit biofuels, asks Fredrik Erixon in a new study of EU biofuels policy....
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The Optimal Basel Capital Requirement to Cope with Pro-cyclicality: A Theoretical Approach
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: financial sectorThis paper focuses on the role of the Basel capital requirement and proposes a new counter cyclical measure by use of a simple general equilibrium...
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The WTO’s Trade Policy Review Mechanism: How to Create Political Will for Liberalization
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe economic crisis has sparked fears about emerging protectionism and created wide interest in initiatives to monitor trade policies. The WTO...
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Does the Trading System have a Future?
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThere is a great deal of ruin in the trading system. Yet, in many respects it has been a huge success. The opening of the world economy of the...
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Liberalising Air Cargo Services in APEC
This study aims at assessing the link between a more liberal air cargo regime and increased bilateral merchandise trade in the Asia Pacific...