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A Future for the World Trade Organisation?
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityIn ECIPE's Second Jan Tumlir Lecture, Peter Sutherland – the former Director General of the WTO who spearheaded the Uruguay Round of trade...
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Do Stronger IPRs Deliver the Goods (and Services) in Developing Countries?
The 1990s witnessed a global wave of intellectual property rights reform. Anchored in a series of international accords, this wave resulted in...
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Administered Protection in the GATT/WTO System
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThis paper examines how WTO member governments have used safeguards, antidumping, and other instruments of “administered” or “contingent”...
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Beyond Geopolitics – The Case for a Free Trade Accord between Europe and Taiwan
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: automotive industry EU free trade agreements geopolitics Information and Communications Technology investment pharmaceutical industry Taiwan trade policyThis paper discusses the economics and geopolitics of EU Taiwan commercial relations and weighs the case for a free trade agreement (FTA) between...
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The Case Against Europe’s 2020 Agenda
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceBy: Fredrik ErixonThe European Union has set out a new strategy for growth and competitiveness. A successor to the Lisbon agenda, the 2020 strategy aims to usher...
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Thinking beyond Basel III: Necessary solutions for capital and liquidity
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: financial sectorIn previous studies, the OECD has identified the main hallmarks of the crisis as too-big-to-fail institutions that took on too much risk, insolvency...
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The Political Economy of Liberalising Air Transport in APEC: Regulatory Aspects and Negotiating Options
This study examines the role of regulation and remedial policies for the successful liberalisation of the air transport sector in the Asia Pacific...
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Preferential Agreements in Maritime Transport The Current and the Outdated
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityEvery service market is very particular, with respect to its organization, rule-making, impediments to trade, and the degree of liberalization...
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