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G20 Financial Regulatory Reforms: Navigating the Clash of National Interests
Today’s news is full of beggar-thy-neighbor currency wars. Outcomes to date are mixed on the initial G20 goals and commitments and their...
Chasing Paper Tigers – Need for Caution and Priorities in EU Countervailing Duties (CVDs)
A new trade war is looming as the EU is now embarking on its first countervailing duty (CVD) against Chinese subsidies over coated fine paper. As...
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...
Determinants of Comparative Advantage in Services
This paper analyzes whether and to what extent determinants of comparative advantage have explanatory power for conventional services trade. It...
How Does Religion Bias the Allocation of Foreign Direct Investment? The Role of Institutions
We construct a gravity model of worldwide foreign direct investment stock (FDI) in order to study the effect of religion on FDI allocation. We...
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...
Effects of inappropriate Financial Regulation
With the recent financial crisis and discussions over the Basel III framework, regulation of banking systems is likely to be modified, if only to...