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The EU’s Trade with Emerging Markets: Climbing the Value-added Chain and Growing IP Intensity?
International trade is a powerful force of societal transformation. Trade agreements not only stimulated trade; they have improved the quality and...
The Beauty of Public Procurement in TTIP
The TTIP negotiation is taking another leap of faith as it delves into the question of public procurement this week. The topic is inarguably a...
The EU and China: Redressing: An Unbalanced Relationship
This paper is based on a presentation to a conference organised by the Hong Kong Baptist University and the European Union Academic...
Regulatory Protection in the New World of Trade: When is it Legitimate?
Pascal Lamy, the former Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), argued in his Jan Tumlir Lecture that we are moving from an old to a...
“The Logic of Zero”: Boosting SMEs Trade in TTIP
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has several novelties. One is that it will include, for the first time in a free...
New Zealand: The EU’s Asia-Pacific Partnership and the Case for a Next Generation FTA
Given the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and several intra-Asian agreements, the EU is focused on large-sized free trade agreements (FTAs) to avoid...
“Splendid Isolation” as Trade Policy: Mercantilism and Crude Keynesianism in “the Capaldo Study” of TTIP
A recent study by Capaldo suggests that TTIP would have seriously negative consequences for trade, growth, income and employment in Europe. It has...
The Health of Nations: A Transatlantic Trade and Investment Agenda for Better Healthcare
Today, increases in the demand for healthcare are driving European governments to look for ways to control growth in healthcare expenditures and at...
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: An Accident Report
This Policy Brief is co-authored with Bob Vastine and J Bradford Jensen The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) was...
Familiar Fault Lines: The Myth of EP Independence in Economic Policy-making
The Lisbon Treaty expanded the scope and depth of the European Parliament’s powers by bringing the bulk of EU legislation under the ordinary...