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After Cross-Strait Rapprochement: A Conceptual Analysis of Potential Gains to Europe from China-Taiwan Economic Cooperation
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: China EU Information and Communications Technology investment Taiwan trade agreements trade policyIs it time for the European Union to revisit its trade policy strategy towards Taiwan? This paper takes a closer look at the potential effects on EU...
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Did Euro Leaders Say Goodbye to the IMF?
By: Fredrik ErixonThis policy brief takes stock of the agreement by Eurozone countries in late June at the European summit. If this agreement survives (which is by no...
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The Meaning of the Unsaid: The New Eurozone Deal in Perspective
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceBy: Fredrik ErixonExpectations were low as European leaders gathered in Brussels on Thursday last week for yet another summit to deal with an escalation of the crisis....
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The Eurozone’s Arrested Adolescence: Sketching a Way Out of the Crisis
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceBy: Fredrik ErixonThe Eurozone crisis has been reinforced and prolonged by leaders’ inability to agree on robust and credible crisis responses. Individual...
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High Noon in Europe’s Financial Regulatory Agenda
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceBy: Fredrik Erixon“Is the chicken now coming home to rooster?”, asked a senior bank executive at a recent conference on European bank regulations. After four years...
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Russia in the WTO: Unriddling the Mystery of Russia’s Trade Policy
By: Fredrik ErixonAfter almost two decades of accession negotiations, Russia was invited in mid-December last year to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO). This was...
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Please Make Spain Austere, But Not Just Yet!
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceBy: Fredrik ErixonSpain is on the brink of another wave of profound market distrust. It is about to enter a depressionary cycle while serious doubts remain about it...
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Who should Lead the World Bank?
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonWho is the best candidate to lead the World Bank? I don’t know. What I do know, however, is that the process for selecting a new World Bank chief...
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The Rising Trend of Green Protectionism: Biofuels and the European Union
By: Fredrik ErixonThis paper surveys and discusses the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) in the European Union and its compatibility with EU obligations in the World...
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What is Driving the Rise in Health Care Expenditures? An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Cost Disease
Research Areas: Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyTags: healthcareThe last 40 years have seen a rapid increase of government expenditures on public welfare arrangements. Increasing healthcare expenditures form a...
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Ideas for New Transatlantic Initiatives on Trade
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonThe US and the EU have the capacity to play a leading role together in promoting international trade liberalisation. They remain the economic giants...
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Digital Authoritarianism: Human Rights, Geopolitics and Commerce
Online censorship is about to take centre stage in the campaign to improve conditions for human rights, cyber security and commercial freedom of...