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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...
Anti-dumping Investigation in the EU: How does it Work?
Anti-dumping rules are flexible and open to political bias. In the past ten years, EU investigating institutions have been biased towards the...
Trade Policy In The BRIICS: A Crisis Stocktake And Looking Ahead
The BRIICS – Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa - are the largest developing countries in their respective regions. A...
Ten Years of Anti-dumping in the EU: Economic and Political Targeting
The use of anti-dumping in the EU is justified on the grounds of eliminating injurious dumping by foreign firms and establishing conditions of...
Containing Creeping Protectionism: A Realist Agenda for the G20
The G20 summit in London offers an opportunity for world leaders to prevent a continued slide towards protectionism. Yet the summit is already at...
When to Privatize? When to Nationalize? A Competition for Ownership Approach
Theories of privatization or nationalization typically compare the economic or political efficiency of private and state ownership, either in...
The Baltic Tiger – The Political Economy of Estonia’s Transition from Plan to Market
Few countries have reformed their economies as swiftly and decisively as Estonia in 1992-94. The economic reform program started during the...
From Twin Towers to Fawlty Towers – a Story of the Doha Round (mimeo)
The Doha Round has yet again collapsed. The July 2008 attempt to negotiate a broad headline deal between the main member countries of the WTO failed....
Redesigning the European Union’s Trade Policy Strategy Towards China
The European Union’s recent trade-policy strategy towards China is ineffective and shortsighted. It focuses on bilateral market access and...