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Beyond Market Access: The New Normal of Preferential Trade Agreements
This paper takes stock of the growing success of preferential trade agreements. It revisits what are the defining characteristics of modern...
A Transatlantic Zero Agreement: Estimating the Gains from Transatlantic Free Trade in Goods
This study examines the potential gains from a transatlantic zero-tariff agreement on trade in goods. The idea of deeper transatlantic economic...
A Future for the World Trade Organisation?
In ECIPE's Second Jan Tumlir Lecture, Peter Sutherland – the former Director General of the WTO who spearheaded the Uruguay Round of trade...
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...
Administered Protection in the GATT/WTO System
This paper examines how WTO member governments have used safeguards, antidumping, and other instruments of “administered” or “contingent”...
Beyond Geopolitics – The Case for a Free Trade Accord between Europe and Taiwan
This paper discusses the economics and geopolitics of EU Taiwan commercial relations and weighs the case for a free trade agreement (FTA) between...
The Case Against Europe’s 2020 Agenda
The European Union has set out a new strategy for growth and competitiveness. A successor to the Lisbon agenda, the 2020 strategy aims to usher...
Thinking beyond Basel III: Necessary solutions for capital and liquidity
In 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...