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Europe in the Trumpworld: EU Trade and Security Under the New US Executive
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe election of Trump into the Oval Office is much of a non-event for EU trade-policy detail, possibly even the TTIP: they have been deteriorating...
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Innovation and the Economics of Healthcare: The Case of Blood Cancer
By: Fredrik ErixonWhile innovation is central for the quality of healthcare and improving health outcomes, it is also a source of increasing costs for governments....
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The EU’s Trade with Emerging Markets: Climbing the Value-added Chain and Growing IP Intensity?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: competitiveness EU Global Supply Chains global value chains technology trade trade in goods trade policyInternational trade is a powerful force of societal transformation. Trade agreements not only stimulated trade; they have improved the quality and...
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Competition, Growth and Regulatory Heterogeneity in Europe’s Digital Economy
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyFar too many policymakers in Europe have a confused vision about the policy conditions required for Europe to grow its digital economy. Their habits...
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What is Wrong with the Single Market?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Five Freedoms Project Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Fredrik ErixonEurope’s Single Market is in many ways an illusion – it exists only nominally. There are substantial barriers to cross-border exchange and the...
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Building Value: The Role of Trademarks for Economic Development
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Innovation, IP, and Human Capital North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonInvestment in brands drives the allocation of resources in our economy. It increases competition, pushes firms to innovate, and decreases asymmetries...
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Intellectual Property Rights: Getting Priorities Right
Tags: intellectual propertyBy: Fredrik ErixonThis paper stands in the nexus of trade policy and IPRs – and it aims to provide a different economic foundation for IPR policies by discussing how...
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“Splendid Isolation” as Trade Policy: Mercantilism and Crude Keynesianism in “the Capaldo Study” of TTIP
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityA recent study by Capaldo suggests that TTIP would have seriously negative consequences for trade, growth, income and employment in Europe. It has...
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The “Google Case” and the Promotion of Europe’s Digital Economy
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Fredrik ErixonThat the European Commission this week threw down the gauntlet to Google in its long-running competition investigation hardly came as a...
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The Health of Nations: A Transatlantic Trade and Investment Agenda for Better Healthcare
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityToday, increases in the demand for healthcare are driving European governments to look for ways to control growth in healthcare expenditures and at...
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TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP: A Challenge to Europe
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East North America South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityWhat if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is not a doomed initiative – and what if it will actually make inroads into modern trade problems? The...
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Cities and the Wealth of Nations: How can Helsinki, London, Paris and Stockholm prosper from TTIP?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe two major forces shaping the global economy are globalisation and urbanisation. Both these forces have both contributed to a much greater role of...