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Origins of the Financial Crisis and Requirements for Reform
This paper examines the causes of the global financial crisis (focusing in particular on why residential mortgage-backed securities and credit...
Has the EU’s Single Market Program led to Deeper Integration of EU Services Markets?
This paper empirically evaluates whether the EU’s Single Market Program has led to deeper integration of EU services markets. It adopts a...
Public Money for Public Goods: Winners and Losers from CAP Reform
Who will win and who will lose under the post-2013 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)? Will those member states that benefit most from the current...
Transparency of Complex Regulation: How Should WTO Trade Policy Reviews Deal with Sanitary and Phytosanitary Policies?
Protectionism flourishes in the shadow and withers in the sunlight. That is the idea behind the WTO’s Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM) that...
Assessing International Trade in Healthcare Services
Many stories and anecdotal evidence document doctors and patients travelling across the globe to give and receive medical and cosmetic surgeries,...
A Blueprint for Reform of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture
As the Doha negotiations are at a dead end, Valentin Zahrnt addresses some fundamental questions about the future direction of WTO disciplines in...