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The Political Economy of EU Anti-Dumping Reform
In this paper, we provide a political economy account of the European Union’s failed attempt to reform its anti-dumping legislation between 2006...
Trade, Globalisation and Emerging Protectionism Since the Crisis
The global economic crisis, and governments’ responses to the crisis, did not precipitate a descent into 1930s-style protectionism. That is a...
The Treaty of Lisbon and the European Union as an actor in international trade
The Treaty of Lisbon will introduce a number of changes to European Union (EU) external trade policy decision making. These involve the scope of...
Anti-dumping Investigation in the EU: How does it Work?
Anti-dumping rules are flexible and open to political bias. In the past ten years, EU investigating institutions have been biased towards the...
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...
The Baltic Tiger – The Political Economy of Estonia’s Transition from Plan to Market
Few countries have reformed their economies as swiftly and decisively as Estonia in 1992-94. The economic reform program started during the...
Trade in Information Technology Goods: Adapting the ITA to 21st Century Technological Change
In 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...
Reforming the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: Health Check, Budget Review, Doha Round
This Policy Brief provides recommendations for agricultural policy reform in the EU. It argues, first, that all measures that distort market...
Russian Commercial Policies and the European Union – Can Russia be Anchored in a Legal International Economic Order?
Can Russia be brought to abide by international commercial rules? In ECIPE’s new Working Paper, Iana Dreyer and Brian Hindley discuss the isolation...