Trade, Globalisation and Security
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Time to Resist Dovish Temptations?
Tags: USOn Thursday, the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates for the first time in nine years (figure 1). However, this decision is still surrounded...
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What Types of Protectionist Non-tariff Measures do States Use Most?
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Hanna DeringerDifferent countries have different strategies to protect their markets. This bar chart shows the top 10 export- and import-restricting non-tariff...
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The Japan EU Regulatory Cooperation A Key Agenda for a “Living Partnership”
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: JapanThe last Japan-EU Summit achieved a little noticed but crucial progress. It made a clear call for “further progress in regulatory cooperation”...
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Did Western Civilisation Never Really Catch On?
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Roderick AbbottOver the last seven days, as the FIFA story has unfolded, the famous dictum: “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” has...
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Migration Seen From Brussels
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Roderick AbbottMuch talk and attention in recent weeks to the streams of migrants heading across the Mediterranean to Italy and Malta, and to the large numbers of...
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Who in Europe is Successful in Exporting in Digital Sectors?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityEarlier this month the European Commission presented its new strategy of the Single Digital Market. Several of DG Connect’s most important goals...
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Capaldo Fails to Convince
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: TTIPIn October 2014, Jeronim Capaldo published a paper (hereafter Capaldo 2014) suggesting TTIP to cause severe negative economic implications for...
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TPP Giving Mad Men a Run for Their Money
As reported by our friends at the FT, President Obama paid a visit to the Pacific Rim (Portland, Oregon to be precise) to campaign for the TPP...
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TPA and the Democratic Disunity – Obama’s Trade Bill, Jobs and Income Inequality in America
Well, they say the TPP deal is now ‘practically wrapped up’. The House and Senate Leadership have now tabled the bipartisan Trade Promotion...
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Old Problems in the New World: Banking and Payments Make Global E-commerce Surprisingly Local
Tags: e-commerceBy: Guest AuthorBy Sara Holmberg, Research Assistant at ECIPE Imagine a small village in rural Kenya. Imagine 20 women who make traditional jewellery. Now,...
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What is the Future of UK Trade if the Referendum Results in an Exit from the EU?
Tags: BREXITBy: Roderick AbbottThe formulation of the title makes it clear that we are talking of economics - the world of trade and commerce - rather than geopolitics - foreign...
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The Spiral of Silence – How Anti-TTIP Groups Dominate German Online Media and Set the Tone for TTIP Opinion
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Matthias BauerIn Germany, a few anti-TTIP groups are waging a resolute battle against TTIP in online media. Compared to both German industry associations and...