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Vested and Invested Interests: The Role of Investment Protection in EU-Russia Relations
Relations 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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Beyond Geopolitics – The Case for a Free Trade Accord between Europe and Taiwan
This paper discusses the economics and geopolitics of EU Taiwan commercial relations and weighs the case for a free trade agreement (FTA) between...
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Regional Economic Integration in Asia: The Track Record and Prospects
This is the season for regional-integration initiatives in Asia. There is talk of region-wide FTAs, and there are east-Asian initiatives on financial...
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Productivity of India’s Offshore Outsourcing Sector: Business-based Evidence
Following on an earlier paper discussing the sustainability of India's comparative advantage in IT offshore outsourcing, the authors pursue their...
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The Quest for Gas Market Competition
More, not less, competition in the EU’s gas markets is required to achieve a Single Market and to therefore reduce Europe’s vulnerability to gas...
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A New Trade Agenda for Transatlantic Economic Cooperation
Few policy issues in Brussels and Washington DC are met with such a compact unity across political boundaries as the idea of deepened transatlantic...
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China and the Global Economic Crisis
What to expect from China in the current economic crisis? Will the crisis change China’s role in the international economy? In this Policy Brief,...