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FTA Networking in East Asia and Asia-Pacific: Where Are We Going?
This paper provides an overview on the recent development of FTA networking in extended East Asia and assesses the quality of FTAs with novel...
What Will Basel III Achieve?
The overhaul of regulation of financial services now under way, as it affects the capital adequacy framework for banks operating internationally,...
Product Standards and Developing Country Agricultural Exports: The Case of the European Union
This paper shows that private product standards in EU food and agriculture markets can have significant trade effects. In particular for developing...
Ukraine After the Crisis: Recovery and Reform, not Revolution or Russification
This Policy Brief aims at examining Ukraine's economic woes and what it needs to do to improve economic performance. At the centre of the Brief are...
A Tale of Three Markets: How Government Policy Creates Winners and Losers in the Philippine Health Sector
For more than half a century the Philippines has been a leading exporter of human capital in the healthcare sector. This paper estimates that...
Stepping into Asia’s Growth Markets: Dispelling Myths about the EU-Korea Free Trade Agreement
Four years after the launch of Global Europe – the European Union’s trade strategy from 2006 – policymakers are now confronted with the first...
Baltic Economic Reforms: A Crisis Review of Baltic Economic Policy
The Baltic economies were severely hit by the global financial crisis. Gross Domestic Product has contracted considerably. Naturally, it asked what...
Vested and Invested Interests: The Role of Investment Protection in EU-Russia Relations
Relations between the European Union and Russia have lately been improving. After years with a turbulent stop-go relation, fraught by Russian...
Measuring the Cost of International Trade in Services
We present a new dataset of international trade costs in services sectors. Using a theory-based methodology combined with data on domestic shipments...