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Sweden – From Free Trade to Protectionism?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonSweden has been one of the leading voices for freer trade in the post-war era. Its support for the multilateral trading system has been strong. Today...
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Trade Facilitation: The Role of a WTO Agreement
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTrade facilitation negotiations have been one of the more active topics in the Doha negotiations. In this paper noted trade scholar J. Michael Finger...
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Kazakhstan and the World Economy: An Assessment of Kazakhstan’s Trade Policy and Pending Accession to the WTO
Kazakhstan has been negotiating accession to the WTO for twelve years, following a line of ex-Soviet states seeking membership. In this new,...
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Preferential Trade Agreements in Services: Friends or Foes of the Multilateral Trading System?
A fashionable feature of new generation preferential trade agreements (PTAs) has been the inclusion of a trade in services component. Does this trend...
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Promoting Tokyo as an International Financial Center
Japan’s economic power is widely recognized worldwide—thanks to it being the worlds 2nd largest economy (US$4.3 trillion equivalent GDP in 2006)...
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Proliferation of Preferential Trade Agreements: A Quantification of its Impact
Literature has frequently evaluated the proliferation of preferential trade agreement (PTAs) by counting the number of PTAs or the share of...
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One Minute to Midnight: Is There Still Time to Rethink EPAs?
Research Areas: Africa EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries are entering the final phase of negotiation over...
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Les principes d’organisation des autorités de régulation indépendantes pour les télécommunications
Research Areas: Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyTags: telecommunicationsLes autorités de régulation sectorielles, créées au cours des années quatre-vingt-dix dans la plupart des pays du monde, sont des institutions...
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Trade Costs, Barriers to Entry, and Export Diversification in Developing Countries
This paper finds that a 1 percent reduction in the cost of exporting or the cost of international transport is associated with an export...
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Evolution technologique et enjeux de la régulation des télécommunications
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging TechnologiesLes services de télécommunications sont susceptibles, par leur nature, de subir plusieurs types de défaillances de marché. Or, les changements...