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 globalization, 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 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
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
Should the EU Pursue a Strategic Ginseng Policy? Trade Dependency in the Brave New World of Geopolitics
Political leaders all over the world are calling for strategic autonomy. The removal of critical trade dependencies has become a guiding principle in most policy proposals, including the EU’s new industrial strategy. In making these decisions, it is important for policymakers to understand the reasons behind why shortages of critical goods and technologies have emerged in the first place. The instruments that new policies cerate should respond to real problems,...
Media Mention
The European Parliament endorse the new anti-coercion instrument
Oscar Guinea comments in Euractiv about the European Parliament endorsement of the new anti-coercion...
Media Mention
EU One Step Closer to Finalizing Another Tool to Counter Chinese Subsidies
Oscar Guinea comments in the China Trade Monitor the effects of the EU Foreign Subsidy Regulation on Chinese companies (behind the...
Media Mention
Price controls in Mexico
Oscar Guinea comments in El Universal on price controls in Mexico to limit inflation (in Spanish, behind the price...
Media Mention
The impact of western sanctions on Russia
Oscar Guinea comments in Le Monde about the impact of sanctions on the Russian...
Article
Europe Against the Machine
Oscar Guinea writes an opinion piece in the Spanish newspaper El País about the upcoming EU regulation on artificial intelligence (in Spanish and...
Article
The winning EU that we need
Oscar Guinea writes an opinion piece in El País about the need for a renewed focus on competitiveness in EU policymaking (in Spanish and behind the...
Article
Spain needs an open migration policy
Oscar Guinea writes an opinion piece in the Spanish newspaper El País in which he argues in favour of the new migration law and stresses the...
Article
Check Mate to the Rules of the Game
Oscar Guinea writes an op-ed in EL País (in Spanish and behind the paywall) about EU international trade policy in the age of...
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...
Book or Paper
International EU27 pharmaceutical production, trade, dependencies and vulnerabilities: a factual analysis
ECIPE researchers analyse the degree of import dependency and export vulnerability of the EU pharmaceutical...
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
EU Trade Dependencies
Oscar Guinea presents his research on EU trade dependencies to the European Chemical Industry...
Speech or Presentation