Anna Guildea
Email: anna.guildea@ecipe.org
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Areas of Expertise: EU Trade Agreements Services Digital Economy WTO and Globalisation
Anna Guildea is a Policy Researcher in Trade and Digital Policy at ECIPE. She has recently completed her MSc in International Political Economy as a SPIRE Scholar at University College Dublin. She holds a Bachelor’s degree with honors in International Development Studies and Sociology from Maynooth University – where she was awarded an Entrance Scholarship and an academic achievement award for her work. She was also granted a scholarship by the Irish Universities Association to spend a summer semester studying in Beijing.
Anna is currently a Yenching Scholar at Peking University in Beijing where she is completing a second master’s degree in China Studies, with a specialisation in Politics and International Relations.
Anna has previous experience working in the Adapt Centre, a research centre based in Trinity College Dublin, and as an intern at the Taihe Institute, a policy think-tank based in Beijing.
ECIPE Policy Briefs
When the State Becomes the Only Buyer: Monopsony in China’s Public Procurement of Medical Technology
China’s centralised state procurement policies are moving the Chinese market of medical technologies in a monopsonistic direction. A monopsony means that a single buyer exerts strong power to move the market to its favour by gradually cutting prices and setting terms for producers that are extortionary. It is equivalent to a monopoly – with the only difference being that in a monopsony, it is the single buyer that acts in a market-predatory manner. Ultimately,...
New Globalisation
Prosperity and Resilience: Diverse Production and Comparative Advantage in Modern Economies
A common version of trade theory suggests that countries will specialise in a limited number of products. Using the example of David Ricardo from 1817, England specialises in cloth and Portugal in producing wine – and then they trade with each other to mutual benefit. However, this is a crude version of comparative advantage that routinely leads to political concerns about trade. Today the prime concern is that Europe and other developed countries have become...
ECIPE Policy Briefs
China’s Public Procurement Protectionism and Europe’s Response: The Case of Medical Technology
This paper concerns China’s market for medical technologies and how the Chinese state is assisting its own companies to gain greater sales at the expense of producers from Europe and other advanced manufacturing economies. The medical technology sector captures a variety of products, services and solutions which are essential to the provision of healthcare to citizens. Examples range from fairly simple technologies such as sticking platers, to complex ones, such...
New Globalisation
Services Trade Needs to be Taken as Seriously as Goods Trade
Services constitute at least a quarter of total trade. Between 2009 and 2019 global services trade increased by nearly 50%, compared to 18% for goods trade. Yet it is rarely taken as seriously as goods in global trade policy discourse. This is a problem when making the case for...
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Biden’s minimum corporate tax rate could destroy Ireland’s economic growth model, leaving the country in uncharted territory
Anna Guildea discusses the impact of Biden's proposed global minimum corporate tax rate on Ireland's FDI-dependent...
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Ireland presents all the conditions for the emergence of a radical right populist party – except there isn’t one
There is a national radical right populist presence in almost every Western democracy, but not in Ireland, despite all the amenable conditions for...
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