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The Armington-Heckscher-Ohlin Model – An Intuitive Exposition
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityGlobal models of world trade are often used as input into assessing the possible effects of liberalising trade. As simplifications of the economic...
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Water Supply: Public or Private?
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: USMost theories on private sector participation in water infrastructure are based on the sole supposed difference of efficiency between the public and...
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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...
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The European Dairy Sector at a Crossroad: Production Quota and Export Refund Opting Out
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyThe European Union (EU) reactivated export refunds for dairy products on January 2009. These world market distortive instruments had been previously...
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A Blueprint for Reform of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityAs the Doha negotiations are at a dead end, Valentin Zahrnt addresses some fundamental questions about the future direction of WTO disciplines in...
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Containing Creeping Protectionism: A Realist Agenda for the G20
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: protectionismBy: Fredrik ErixonThe G20 summit in London offers an opportunity for world leaders to prevent a continued slide towards protectionism. Yet the summit is already at...
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When to Privatize? When to Nationalize? A Competition for Ownership Approach
Tags: economyTheories of privatization or nationalization typically compare the economic or political efficiency of private and state ownership, either in...
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Liberalising Air Passenger Services in APEC
Research Areas: Far East Industrial and Competitiveness Policy South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThis working paper aims at assessing the prospects for a more liberal air passenger transport regime in the Asia Pacific region under the auspices of...
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The Baltic Tiger – The Political Economy of Estonia’s Transition from Plan to Market
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Fredrik ErixonFew countries have reformed their economies as swiftly and decisively as Estonia in 1992-94. The economic reform program started during the...