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After Cross-Strait Rapprochement: A Conceptual Analysis of Potential Gains to Europe from China-Taiwan Economic Cooperation
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: China EU Information and Communications Technology investment Taiwan trade agreements trade policyIs it time for the European Union to revisit its trade policy strategy towards Taiwan? This paper takes a closer look at the potential effects on EU...
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Trade Costs and Productivity in Services Sectors
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityFor goods sectors, there is extensive empirical evidence that lower trade costs are associated with higher productivity at the firm- and...
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Did Euro Leaders Say Goodbye to the IMF?
By: Fredrik ErixonThis policy brief takes stock of the agreement by Eurozone countries in late June at the European summit. If this agreement survives (which is by no...
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Immigration: An Opportunity for the European Union
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceBy: Natalia MacyraThe debate in Europe on migration, and its impact on employment, is lively but often painfully misguided. Increasing unemployment and the euro crisis...
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Beyond Dutch Disease: When Deteriorating Rule of Law affects Russian Trade in High-Tech Goods and Services with Advanced Economies
Tags: economy Information and Communications Technology Russia services technology trade in goods WTOHow does Russia’s deterioration of its rule of law in recent years affect its ability to move away from an export pattern dominated by natural...
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The Meaning of the Unsaid: The New Eurozone Deal in Perspective
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceBy: Fredrik ErixonExpectations were low as European leaders gathered in Brussels on Thursday last week for yet another summit to deal with an escalation of the crisis....
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The Eurozone’s Arrested Adolescence: Sketching a Way Out of the Crisis
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceBy: Fredrik ErixonThe Eurozone crisis has been reinforced and prolonged by leaders’ inability to agree on robust and credible crisis responses. Individual...
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Aid for Trade is Reaching its Limits, so What’s Next?
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe Aid for Trade Initiative has reached its limits and is in a need to be revamped. This article describes the political economy that led to the...
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Will Asia Shape or Shake the World Economy?
Asia’s economic rise has changed the world economy – and will continue to do so in the future as well. George Magnus in his policy brief claims...