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The Basel Capital Adequacy Framework should be Reconsidered
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe Basel capital adequacy framework that has guided bank regulation and supervision for nearly 20 years deserves serious attention when the world...
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Geographical Diversification of Developing Country Exports
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThis paper shows that export costs, tariffs, and international transport costs are all important determinants of geographical export diversification...
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Product Standards, Harmonization, and Trade: Evidence from the Extensive Margin
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityI use a new database of EU product standards in the textiles, clothing, and footwear sectors to present the first empirical evidence that...
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Europe’s Energy Dependency and Russia’s Commercial Assertiveness
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Russia and Eurasia Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonEurope is dependent on Russia for its energy supply and finds itself at odds with designing a policy that addresses its rising number of concerns...
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From Twin Towers to Fawlty Towers – a Story of the Doha Round (mimeo)
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonThe 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....
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Reforming the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: Health Check, Budget Review, Doha Round
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyThis Policy Brief provides recommendations for agricultural policy reform in the EU. It argues, first, that all measures that distort market...
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Trade in Information Technology Goods: Adapting the ITA to 21st Century Technological Change
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Trade, Globalisation and SecurityIn this new ECIPE Working Paper, Iana Dreyer and Brian Hindley analyse the ITA’s structure and development. The ITA has been a great success, but...
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Russian Commercial Policies and the European Union – Can Russia be Anchored in a Legal International Economic Order?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Russia and Eurasia South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityCan Russia be brought to abide by international commercial rules? In ECIPE’s new Working Paper, Iana Dreyer and Brian Hindley discuss the isolation...
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Globalisation, Earnings and Consumer Prices: Taking Stock of the Benefits From Globalisation
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonGlobalisation has been accused of “stealing jobs” and depressing wages in the developed part of the world. China’s entry into the world...