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Whither Economic Integration in East Asia?
Countries in East Asia need to institutionalize their deepening economic interdependence. This institutionalization is however not to make East Asia...
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Beyond Market Access: The New Normal of Preferential Trade Agreements
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThis paper takes stock of the growing success of preferential trade agreements. It revisits what are the defining characteristics of modern...
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A Transatlantic Zero Agreement: Estimating the Gains from Transatlantic Free Trade in Goods
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThis study examines the potential gains from a transatlantic zero-tariff agreement on trade in goods. The idea of deeper transatlantic economic...
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A Future for the World Trade Organisation?
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityIn ECIPE's Second Jan Tumlir Lecture, Peter Sutherland – the former Director General of the WTO who spearheaded the Uruguay Round of trade...
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Do Stronger IPRs Deliver the Goods (and Services) in Developing Countries?
The 1990s witnessed a global wave of intellectual property rights reform. Anchored in a series of international accords, this wave resulted in...
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Administered Protection in the GATT/WTO System
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThis paper examines how WTO member governments have used safeguards, antidumping, and other instruments of “administered” or “contingent”...
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Beyond Geopolitics – The Case for a Free Trade Accord between Europe and Taiwan
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: automotive industry EU free trade agreements geopolitics Information and Communications Technology investment pharmaceutical industry Taiwan trade policyThis paper discusses the economics and geopolitics of EU Taiwan commercial relations and weighs the case for a free trade agreement (FTA) between...
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The Case Against Europe’s 2020 Agenda
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceBy: Fredrik ErixonThe European Union has set out a new strategy for growth and competitiveness. A successor to the Lisbon agenda, the 2020 strategy aims to usher...
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Thinking beyond Basel III: Necessary solutions for capital and liquidity
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: financial sectorIn previous studies, the OECD has identified the main hallmarks of the crisis as too-big-to-fail institutions that took on too much risk, insolvency...