Oscar Guinea
Email: oscar.guinea@ecipe.org
Mobile: +34 667 422 803
Areas of Expertise: European Union EU Single Market Digital Economy Services
Oscar Guinea is a Senior Economist at ECIPE.
Oscar is the author of several studies in the field of international trade, digital markets, industrial policy, and healthcare. He contributes regularly to debates on EU trade policy in newspaper articles and seminars. His research interests include globalisation, technological change, economic dependencies, and European relations with the Mercosur countries. Oscar is the author of a regular column in the Spanish newspaper El País where he writes about EU trade and economic policy.
He joined ECIPE in 2018 having worked as an Economic Adviser at the Scottish Government in the Office of the Chief Economic Adviser. Prior to that, he worked for the European Commission (DG ENER) as a national expert on energy policy. Oscar has experience appraising and assessing regulation as a government economist and private consultant.
Oscar holds a MA in European Economics from the College of Europe and a MSc in Development Economics from the University of Sussex. He graduated in Economics from the University Autonoma of Madrid and was an international student in the University of Chile and the University of Macedonia.
ECIPE Policy Briefs
Calling on the EU-US Trade and Technology Council: How to Deliver for the Planet and the Economy
This Policy Brief proposes the establishment of an agreement on conformity assessment between the EU and the US that covers machinery and electrical equipment. The initiative aims to increase the number of European and US conformity assessment bodies authorized to test and certify EU and US machinery and electrical equipment for exports into each other’s markets, without recognizing the equivalency or otherwise altering the product requirements in regulation,...
ECIPE Policy Briefs
Regulating the Working Conditions of Platform Work: What Can We Learn from EU Member States?
Policymakers in Estonia, France, Greece, and Spain share the common objective of enhancing the working conditions of platform workers. However, variations in their labour markets, legal frameworks, and political landscapes have led to four distinct approaches in achieving this goal. Predominantly, the Spanish regulation has been geared towards attempting to reclassify platform workers from self-employed to employees. In contrast, the regulatory strategies in France...
ECIPE Policy Briefs
European Economic Security and Access to Critical Raw Materials: Trade, Diversification, and the Role of Mercosur
Access to secure and stable supply of critical raw materials (CRMs) is vital for Europe’s economic security. These raw materials, which are indispensable inputs for Europe’s modernisation, are supplied by a handful of countries. Among them, China and Russia are two of the most important European suppliers of CRMs. This dependency leaves the EU exposed to Chinese and Russian policies that may harm Europe’s economic and political interests. The European...
ECIPE Policy Briefs
If the EU was a State in the United States: Comparing Economic Growth between EU and US States
This Policy Brief is a warning call about Europe’s poor economic growth and its consequences for prosperity. The long-term trend of Gross Domestic Product per capita is crucially important but not always easy to grasp. While it’s common to compare levels of growth between countries in a single year, the reality is that it is the long-term trend that matters. An economy that grows at 3 percent per year will double in 24 years but an economy that grows at 1...
Media Mention
China keen to boost medical devices production
The ECIPE paper "Strategic Autonomy and the Competitiveness of Europe’s Innovative Pharmaceutical Sector: A Wake-up Call" is referenced in an...
Media Mention
Why is the EU reluctant to import ‘sensitive products’ from Ukraine?
Oscar Guinea comments in TRTWORLD the renewed safeguard added to imports of agricultural products from Ukraine into the...
Media Mention
China world leader in 37 of 44 critical technologies, EU missing
The paper "If the EU was a State in the United States: Comparing Economic Growth between EU and US States" written by Fredrik Erixon, Oscar Guinea...
Media Mention
Andy Sloan: U turn if you want to
The policy brief "If the EU was a State in the United States: Comparing Economic Growth between EU and US States" by Fredrik Erixon, Oscar Guinea...
Article
Two birds, one stone: The transatlantic market for green goods and technologies
Oscar Guinea and Vanika Sharma write for Encompass about what the TTC can do next to kickstart the transatlantic market for green goods and...
Article
El valor de los valores
Oscar Guinea op-ed for El País on European values and identity written together with Isabel Pérez del...
Article
Crece el vecindario: los beneficios de una Ucrania en la UE
Óscar Guinea, together with Isabel Pérez del Puerto, writes an opinion piece for El País focussing on the benefits of a potential Ukraine as a...
Article
Quality against quantity: the challenge of the Spanish economy
Oscar Guinea writes an opinion piece in El País about the main challenge of the Spanish economy: its stagnant productivity (in Spanish and behind...
Book or Paper
The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and Its Border Effects: How Can Europe Become a Better Neighbour?
First paper crafted in collaboration with Bertelsmann Stiftung focusing on...
Book or Paper
Open Strategic Autonomy: new tools for a geopolitical world
Oscar Guinea writes a chapter on the latest issue of "Información Comercial Española" published by the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Commerce, and...
Book or Paper
Exporting Distortions: Chinese Industrial Policy and the European Response
Oscar Guinea writes a chapter on China industrial policy and the European response on CIDOB's monography China's geoeconomic strategy and its...
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...
Speech or Presentation
Strategic Autonomy and the Competitiveness of Europe’s Innovative Pharmaceutical Sector: A Wake-up Call
Oscar Guinea presents at the European Confederation of Pharmaceutical Entrepreneurs...
Speech or Presentation
In Support of Market Driven Standards
Oscar Guinea presents his research on the EU New Standardisation Strategy at...
Speech or Presentation
EU Trade Dependencies
Oscar Guinea presents his research on EU trade dependencies to the European Chemical Industry...
Speech or Presentation