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Industrial Policy in Europe Since the Second World War: What Has Been Learnt?
Prompted by the revival of interest in industrial policy in several European countries, this paper considers what lessons can be learned from earlier...
Standards, Reputation and Trade: Evidence from US Horticultural Import Refusals
By disentangling productivity from quality sorting in horticultural exports, this paper investigates the impact of food safety standards and...
Public Support for Trade Policy
Public opinion data suggests that people on both sides of the Atlantic are committed to free trade in principle, but advocate protection...
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...
Indian Trade Policy After the Crisis
India, like China, had a “good” crisis; both have spearheaded exuberant post-crisis recovery in emerging markets. A combination of stable...
The Crisis and the Global Economy: A Shifting World Order?
The global economic crisis has sparked short-term divergence of economic performance between the West and emerging markets, and thereby accelerated...
Surveillance by International Institutions: Lessons from the Global Financial and Economic Crisis
This paper reviews key policy messages and warnings about developments in the run-up to the global financial and economic crisis that began in...
A Guide to CAP Reform Politics: Issues, Positions and Dynamics
CAP reform is the major bone of contention in the negotiations of the next long-term EU budget beyond 2013. In a new working paper, Valentin...
Chinese Trade Policy After (Almost) Ten Years in the WTO: A Post-Crisis Stocktake
China’s trade policy has shifted in the near-decade since it joined the WTO, argues Razeen Sally in a new study. It behaves more like a very...