Fredrik Erixon
Email: fredrik.erixon@ecipe.org
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Fredrik Erixon is a Swedish economist and writer. He has been the Director of the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) ever since its start in 2006. The Financial Times has ranked Erixon as one of Brussels 30 most influential people.
Fredrik Erixon is the author of several books and studies in the fields of international economics, economic policy, and regulatory affairs (welfare reforms, healthcare, competition policy, et cetera). His latest book (co-authored with Björn Weigel) was The Innovation Illusion: How so Little is Created by so Many Working so Hard (Yale University Press) and he has previously written books about the history of political ideas, the role of social capital for economic growth, and international economic policy. His research interests covers international economics, European relations with Asia and North America, trade and regulatory policy, philosophy and technological change. His next book, Saving Liberalism for the 21st Century, is about challenges from populism and other ideas to the open society.
Erixon has advised several governments in Europe and the rest of the world, and is a frequent speaker at conferences. He regularly writes for international newspapers and magazines. In his previous career, Erixon has worked in development policy, financial markets, business consulting, and academia.
ECIPE Occasional Papers
A Compass to Guide EU Policy in Support of Business Competitiveness
The EU agenda for improving competitiveness is missing in action. Economic competitiveness has been a central plank in the development of the European Union – a relentless quest for policies that lead to more prosperity and that make European companies in world markets more successful. However, since the end of the Lisbon Agenda in 2010, economic competitiveness seems to have fallen off the EU map. This Agenda had its flaws, but it rightly sought to make Europe...
ECIPE Occasional Papers
Leadership in European Digital Policy: Future Role and Direction for the D9+ Group
In this paper, we will discuss how Europe makes digital policy and how its digital economic performance can be improved. The focus is on the D9+ initiative. Launched in 2016 on the initiative of former Swedish trade minister, Ann Linde, nine countries with a particular interest in matters of the digital economy met to learn from each other and seek common ground on policy issues. On occasions, the D9+ Group has issued joint statements relating to regulatory...
ECIPE Occasional Papers
The New Wave of Defensive Trade Policy Measures in the European Union: Design, Structure, and Trade Effects
This study undertakes a comprehensive review of proposed and adopted defensive trade policy instruments in the EU, with the purpose of better understanding their design, functioning, and implications. The study covers eight policy instruments at different stages of development. These are: Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI), International Procurement Instrument (IPI), Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), Foreign Subsidy Instrument (FSI), Corporate Sustainability...
ECIPE Occasional Papers
After the DMA, the DSA and the New AI Regulation: Mapping the Economic Consequences of and Responses to New Digital Regulations in Europe
The European Union (EU) has pursued an ambitious agenda for regulating the digital economy, and it is now planning to establish a new package of regulations, including the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the Digital Services Act (DSA), and a new regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI). These regulations build on an already established structure of digital and business regulations in Europe that is comparatively restrictive but that varies substantially between EU...
Media Mention
Brussels Is Ditching Its Free-Trade Gospel
Fredrik Erixon interviewed in Foreign Policy about trade and subsidy wars between the EU and the...
Media Mention
EU Sues China in WTO Over Trade Retaliation on Lithuania
Fredrik Erixon interviewed by the Wall Street Journal about EU filing WTO complaint against...
Media Mention
Liberal Sweden put to the test as transatlantic trade war looms
Fredrik Erixon interviewed in Politico about trade and the Swedish EU...
Media Mention
Brussels tells Scholz not to revive the ghost of TTIP
Fredrik Erixon interviewed by Politico about EU-US trade...
Article
Hotet om handelskrig som Europa måste tackla
Fredrik Erixon discusses EU-US trade frictions in Swedish public...
Article
Will the real Emmanuel Macron please stand up!?
Fredrik Erixon interviewed by Politico about Macron's view on...
Article
The Geopolitics of Technology
Fredrik Erixon interviewed in Euractiv podcast about the new geopolitics of...
Article
A New Globalisation
Fredrik Erixon talks about globalization and liberalism in the CONVOCO!...
Book or Paper
Strategic Partnership for a Secure and Digital Europe
In a new book by the Centre of European Perspective (CEP), scholars and policymakers in Europe chart a new course for strategic transatlantic...
Book or Paper
Achtung Europa!
Fredrik Erixon on the perils of strategic autonomy, technological sovereignty and economic independence in a policy brief for the Stockholm Free...
Book or Paper
The DMA, the DSA and the new AI regulation: Mapping the economic consequences of new digital regulations in Central and Eastern Europe
Oscar Guinea co-authors a study exploring the impacts of the EU DMA, DSA, and AI regulation in Central and Eastern...
Book or Paper
Europe’s Pharmaceutical Supply Chain – Key Trade Data
In a project, ECIPE has researched the pharmaceutical supply chain of EU27 and this paper presents data on EU pharmaceutical exports and imports for...
Speech or Presentation
Individual Agency and the Modern Economy
Fredrik Erixon talks about individual agency and the global...
Speech or Presentation
Lifting Europe’s Digital Competitiveness
A presentation by Fredrik Erixon at the EU High-level Group on Competitiveness and...
Speech or Presentation
Need for a New Growth Agenda for the EU
Presentation by Fredrik Erixon at a conference by the Finnish government about Finland's EU...
Speech or Presentation
Populism and the Economy
Fredrik Erixon talks about populism and the economy at Berlin...