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Value For Money: Getting Europe’s Trade and IPR Policy Right
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonFew issues in trade and international commercial policy have in the past decade provoked as much contention as intellectual property rights...
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Securing Korea’s Prosperity in the Next Century: An analysis of the Korea-EU Free Trade Agreement
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Trade, Globalisation and SecurityKorea is a country at cross-roads. As a small but innovative economy, it has always depended on free trade for growth. But as it faces competition...
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Ukraine After the Crisis: Recovery and Reform, not Revolution or Russification
By: Fredrik ErixonThis Policy Brief aims at examining Ukraine's economic woes and what it needs to do to improve economic performance. At the centre of the Brief are...
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Stepping into Asia’s Growth Markets: Dispelling Myths about the EU-Korea Free Trade Agreement
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Trade, Globalisation and SecurityFour years after the launch of Global Europe – the European Union’s trade strategy from 2006 – policymakers are now confronted with the first...
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Baltic Economic Reforms: A Crisis Review of Baltic Economic Policy
By: Fredrik ErixonThe Baltic economies were severely hit by the global financial crisis. Gross Domestic Product has contracted considerably. Naturally, it asked what...
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Vested and Invested Interests: The Role of Investment Protection in EU-Russia Relations
By: Fredrik ErixonRelations between the European Union and Russia have lately been improving. After years with a turbulent stop-go relation, fraught by Russian...
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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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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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Trade, Globalisation and Emerging Protectionism Since the Crisis
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe global economic crisis, and governments’ responses to the crisis, did not precipitate a descent into 1930s-style protectionism. That is a...
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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....