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The Economic Impact of Marco Civil da Internet in Brazil
As the global economy grows increasingly digital, businesses rely on the free flow of data across borders to efficiently sell, produce and deliver...
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Negotiating Trade in Services: Lessons From Autonomous Liberalisation
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityGreater trade openness in services is central for new trade agreements to boost trade and economic growth. A sector often neglected in past trade...
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OECD BEPS: Reconciling Global Trade, Taxation Principles and the Digital Economy
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Trade, Globalisation and SecurityFollowing media reports on the low tax rates paid by some of the world’s largest multinationals, international tax reform has moved to the top of...
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The Costs of Data Localisation: A Friendly Fire on Economic Recovery
This paper aims to quantify the losses that result from data localisation requirements and related data privacy and security laws that discriminate...
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In Search of China’s Foreign Policy
This Policy Brief takes stock of recent developments and future trends in China’s foreign policy. It questions China’s progress in shaping its...
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The “Repsol Case” Against Argentina: Lessons for Investment Protection Policy
Research Areas: Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Latin America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonAre Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) fit for purpose – to help resolving disputes between investors and states in an efficient, fair and...
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The Japan-EU Negotiations on Railway
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityDespite major advancements in the Japan-EU FTA (JEUFTA) negotiations, the talks remain difficult in the railway sector. These difficulties flow...
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After the Bali Agreement: Lessons from the Doha Round for the WTO’s Post-Bali Agenda
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonAt the WTO summit in Bali late last year, trade ministers managed to clear the way for a new trade agreement. This is positive news – and it proves...
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Mega-regional Trade Agreements: Implications for the African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries
By: Peter DraperIn the wake of the ninth WTO ministerial conference in Bali, in December 2013, there is renewed optimism that the WTO can deliver something. The time...
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What’s Next for EU-China Relations?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonPresident Xi’s visit to Brussels prompts the question: are China and the EU willing to rekindle their relationship, to fuse it with other energy...
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Russia, Crimea – and Europe’s Foreign Economic Policy
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Russia and Eurasia Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonThe European Union is the largest economy in the world. But it is not the most powerful. It has shown its capacity for economic statecraft by...
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Investing in Obesity Treatment to Deliver Significant Healthcare Savings: Estimating the Healthcare Costs of Obesity and the Benefits of Treatment
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human CapitalTags: healthcareBy: Fredrik ErixonObesity rates in Europe have been growing at an accelerated speed in the past two decades. In the European Union, between 36.9% and 56.7% of all...