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From Twin Towers to Fawlty Towers – a Story of the Doha Round (mimeo)
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonThe Doha Round has yet again collapsed. The July 2008 attempt to negotiate a broad headline deal between the main member countries of the WTO failed....
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Reforming the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: Health Check, Budget Review, Doha Round
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyThis Policy Brief provides recommendations for agricultural policy reform in the EU. It argues, first, that all measures that distort market...
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Trade in Information Technology Goods: Adapting the ITA to 21st Century Technological Change
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Trade, Globalisation and SecurityIn this new ECIPE Working Paper, Iana Dreyer and Brian Hindley analyse the ITA’s structure and development. The ITA has been a great success, but...
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Russian Commercial Policies and the European Union – Can Russia be Anchored in a Legal International Economic Order?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Russia and Eurasia South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityCan Russia be brought to abide by international commercial rules? In ECIPE’s new Working Paper, Iana Dreyer and Brian Hindley discuss the isolation...
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Globalisation, Earnings and Consumer Prices: Taking Stock of the Benefits From Globalisation
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonGlobalisation has been accused of “stealing jobs” and depressing wages in the developed part of the world. China’s entry into the world...
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Liberalising Air Transport Services in APEC
Research Areas: Far East Industrial and Competitiveness Policy South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThis draft working paper represents work in progress aimed at assessing the prospects for a more liberal air passenger transport regime in the Asia...
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Should China Revalue its Currency? Lessons from the Japanese Experience
Research Areas: Far EastThere is a similarity of pattern between the present international pressures for RMB revaluation and pressures which were exerted on Japan in the...
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European Financial Supervision in an Age of Growing Financial Integration: The Current Situation and the Outlook for Reform
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceThis paper will first discuss how the current configuration EU financial market and supervision evolved in its historical setting. The paper will...
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Institutions and Intellectual Property Reform in Developing Countries
The years since 1990 have witnessed an international wave of reform and institutional change with respect to intellectual property rights (IPRs),...
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Redesigning the European Union’s Trade Policy Strategy Towards China
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe European Union’s recent trade-policy strategy towards China is ineffective and shortsighted. It focuses on bilateral market access and...