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Our friends at Bruegel posted a nice piece called "Why does Italy not grow?" which I missed when it was first published (until a chronically sleep-deprived friend posted it on her Facebook). The...

By Maria Salfi (Intern at ECIPE) The recent Nobel Prize winner in Economics, Jean Tirole, has brought very important contributions to economics – and competition policy authorities should take on...

by Maria Salfi (Intern at ECIPE) There is a general widespread notion within the European Union that a lower corporate tax rate can harm society. In fact, the European Commission strongly...

Since the mid-2000s, the EU has made the opening of public procurement markets one of its key priorities in the WTO and in the bilateral agreements it negotiates with the US and Japan. In this...

Shenzhen, also known as China’s Silicon Valley, is located less than 30 km north of Hong Kong. As a leading ICT capital, Shenzhen’s economic growth is gradually catching up with Hong Kong –...

By Maria Salfi (Intern at ECIPE) A week has passed and the deadline to ratify the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) missed. African countries are at the borderline, giving up 12 years of...

Following the nomination of Cecilia Malmström as the new European Commissioner for Trade, ECIPE asked its Twitter followers whether the new Commission would change the course of EU trade policy. In...

Following the agreement reached at the special European Council held on 30th August, the EU has announced the implementation – effective from today - of new sanctions against Russia. These will...

India’s economy has become much more liberal over the last 20 years. Its applied tariff rate has gone down from a high 113% in 1990-91 to a low 13.7 by taking a simple average although some tariff...

In these days when the whole of Europe files less patents than Japan; when precautionary principle rules over science, and turns into one of the biggest stumbling blocks of a transatlantic trade...