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 previously worked as an Economic Adviser at the Scottish Government in the Office of the Chief Economic Adviser on topics ranging from monetary policy to the impact of Brexit and migration on the Scottish and UK economy. He led the macroeconomic modelling team working with Computable General Equilibrium Models. Prior to that, he worked for the European Commission as a national expert on energy poverty and the impact of price deregulation in retail energy markets. Oscar has experience appraising and assessing regulation as a government economist and private consultant.
He has published articles on regional integration and the impact of trade policy on consumers.
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
Learning to Love Trade Again
We are at the moment, the first in seventy-five years, where there is no international consensus in support of trade. Indeed, trade is unloved, unsupported, and even unwanted. There is no shortage of topics in the rhetoric of trade complaints: from the rapid rise of China to Coronavirus as a metaphor for the evils of greater connectivity. Regardless of the validity of these complaints, none of them negate the central truth of trade: countries that engage in trade...
ECIPE Occasional Papers
Standing Up for Competition: Market Concentration, Regulation, and Europe’s Quest for a New Industrial Policy
After the failed merger of Alstom and Siemens – the two giants of Europe´s railway manufacturing sector – the French and the German governments presented a manifesto with a set of radical proposals designed to reshape EU industrial and competition policy. In an article addressed to all European citizens, the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, urged for reform of EU competition policy, to protect Europe from foreign competition. MEP Guy Verhofstadt, the...
Media Mention
Dependency of Spanish Imports
ECIPE blog methodology to measure trade dependency replicated for...
Media Mention
People’s Daily article on EU summit
Oscar Guinea comments in the People’s Daily, the largest newspaper in China on EU's Fiscal Deal (in...
Media Mention
Europe’s hidden weapon in combatting COVID-19: The Single Market
Oscar Guinea quoted in the EPC commentary Europe’s hidden weapon in combatting COVID-19: The Single...
Media Mention
Policy responses to the coronavirus crisis
Oscar Guinea and Koen Berden blog quoted by the European Parliament briefing What Think Tanks are...
Article
Objetivo: salvar la OMC
Oscar Guinea writes an opinion piece in El País on the upcoming election of the new Director-General of the WTO and offers new ideas on how to...
Article
A pie in the sky
Oscar Guinea writes about how self-sufficiency isn't the answer to Europe's perceived fragility on foreign goods for...
Article
Trade policy and COVID-19: Openness and cooperation in times of a pandemic
Oscar Guinea writes about how trade policy can help to fight against the current...
Article
Spain 2.0. A policy in search of a government
Oscar Guinea writes about the future vision of the Spanish economy for Real Instituto...
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...
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