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
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...
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,...
ECIPE Policy Briefs
The EU Digital Markets Act: Assessing the Quality of Regulation
The proposed Digital Markets Act (DMA) is an opportunity to prevent and remedy anti-competitive conduct by large digital platforms. If the Act is designed in an adequate manner to target specific problems, it can improve the contestability of platform services markets and markets that rely substantially on digital services. However, the DMA takes a novel approach to regulation, and novelty in concepts and regulatory requirements can lead to outcomes that later have...
Media Mention
Pharma industry calls for stronger IP protection in free trade agreements
Fredrik Erixon comments on his new paper on how stronger intellectual property protection in EU free trade agreements would benefit the EU...
Media Mention
Transatlantic tech talks team-up on China, but avoid confronting key issues
Fredrik Erixon takes stock of EU-US trade and technology...
Media Mention
WTO chief warns EU, Japan, US not to ‘target’ China using trade reform
Fredrik Erixon comments EU trade policy in South China Morning...
Media Mention
Europe’s new ‘strategic’ approach to trade is nothing of the sort
Fredrik Erixon's paper on EU trade policy discussed in...
Article
A New Globalisation
Fredrik Erixon talks about globalization and liberalism in the CONVOCO!...
Article
The Danger of Western Complacency
Fredrik Erixon and Dalibor Rohac write that a Western revival requires new economic policies that promote trade, growth and economic...
Article
Is this the Birth of a Nordic Nato?
Finland and Sweden will join Nato soon, argues Fredrik Erixon in the...
Article
What Sweden’s political crisis says about Europe’s collapsing centre
Fredrik Erixon writes in the Spectator about the Swedish government...
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...
Book or Paper
Are Services Sick? How Going Digital Can Cure Services Performance
Services make up the lion share of modern developed economies. But their productivity developments have often been lagging. In this study, we...
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...