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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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Productivity of India’s Offshore Outsourcing Sector: Business-based Evidence
Following on an earlier paper discussing the sustainability of India's comparative advantage in IT offshore outsourcing, the authors pursue their...
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Distribution of Agricultural Support: Selected French Evidences
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyThis paper examines the French distribution of agricultural direct payments. It makes clear the institutional channels which aim at redistributing a...
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The Treaty of Lisbon and the European Union as an actor in international trade
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceThe Treaty of Lisbon will introduce a number of changes to European Union (EU) external trade policy decision making. These involve the scope of...
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The Quest for Gas Market Competition
By: Fredrik ErixonMore, not less, competition in the EU’s gas markets is required to achieve a Single Market and to therefore reduce Europe’s vulnerability to gas...
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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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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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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...