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The Rising Trend of Green Protectionism: Biofuels and the European Union
By: Fredrik ErixonThis paper surveys and discusses the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) in the European Union and its compatibility with EU obligations in the World...
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What is Driving the Rise in Health Care Expenditures? An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Cost Disease
Research Areas: Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyTags: healthcareThe last 40 years have seen a rapid increase of government expenditures on public welfare arrangements. Increasing healthcare expenditures form a...
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Ideas for New Transatlantic Initiatives on Trade
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonThe US and the EU have the capacity to play a leading role together in promoting international trade liberalisation. They remain the economic giants...
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Digital Authoritarianism: Human Rights, Geopolitics and Commerce
Online censorship is about to take centre stage in the campaign to improve conditions for human rights, cyber security and commercial freedom of...
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Value For Money: Getting Europe’s Trade and IPR Policy Right
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonFew issues in trade and international commercial policy have in the past decade provoked as much contention as intellectual property rights...
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Securing Korea’s Prosperity in the Next Century: An analysis of the Korea-EU Free Trade Agreement
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Trade, Globalisation and SecurityKorea is a country at cross-roads. As a small but innovative economy, it has always depended on free trade for growth. But as it faces competition...
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Ukraine After the Crisis: Recovery and Reform, not Revolution or Russification
By: Fredrik ErixonThis 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...
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Stepping into Asia’s Growth Markets: Dispelling Myths about the EU-Korea Free Trade Agreement
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Trade, Globalisation and SecurityFour years after the launch of Global Europe – the European Union’s trade strategy from 2006 – policymakers are now confronted with the first...
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Baltic Economic Reforms: A Crisis Review of Baltic Economic Policy
By: Fredrik ErixonThe Baltic economies were severely hit by the global financial crisis. Gross Domestic Product has contracted considerably. Naturally, it asked what...
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Vested and Invested Interests: The Role of Investment Protection in EU-Russia Relations
By: Fredrik ErixonRelations between the European Union and Russia have lately been improving. After years with a turbulent stop-go relation, fraught by Russian...
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A Transatlantic Zero Agreement: Estimating the Gains from Transatlantic Free Trade in Goods
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThis study examines the potential gains from a transatlantic zero-tariff agreement on trade in goods. The idea of deeper transatlantic economic...
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Beyond Geopolitics – The Case for a Free Trade Accord between Europe and Taiwan
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: automotive industry EU free trade agreements geopolitics Information and Communications Technology investment pharmaceutical industry Taiwan trade policyThis paper discusses the economics and geopolitics of EU Taiwan commercial relations and weighs the case for a free trade agreement (FTA) between...