Publications (Filter: EU)
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The Treaty of Lisbon and the European Union as an actor in international trade
The Treaty of Lisbon will introduce a number of changes to European Union (EU) external trade policy decision making. These involve the scope of...
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The Quest for Gas Market Competition
By: Fredrik ErixonMore, not less, competition in the EU’s gas markets is required to achieve a Single Market and to therefore reduce Europe’s vulnerability to gas...
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A New Trade Agenda for Transatlantic Economic Cooperation
Few policy issues in Brussels and Washington DC are met with such a compact unity across political boundaries as the idea of deepened transatlantic...
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Has the EU’s Single Market Program led to Deeper Integration of EU Services Markets?
This paper empirically evaluates whether the EU’s Single Market Program has led to deeper integration of EU services markets. It adopts a...
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Public Money for Public Goods: Winners and Losers from CAP Reform
Who will win and who will lose under the post-2013 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)? Will those member states that benefit most from the current...
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Cause-of-injury Analysis in European Anti-dumping Investigations
WTO rules require national anti-dumping authorities to answer two questions – does the local industry display symptoms of injury? and, are these...
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Anti-dumping Investigation in the EU: How does it Work?
Anti-dumping rules are flexible and open to political bias. In the past ten years, EU investigating institutions have been biased towards the...
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Ten Years of Anti-dumping in the EU: Economic and Political Targeting
The use of anti-dumping in the EU is justified on the grounds of eliminating injurious dumping by foreign firms and establishing conditions of...
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The European Dairy Sector at a Crossroad: Production Quota and Export Refund Opting Out
The European Union (EU) reactivated export refunds for dairy products on January 2009. These world market distortive instruments had been previously...
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Product Standards, Harmonization, and Trade: Evidence from the Extensive Margin
I use a new database of EU product standards in the textiles, clothing, and footwear sectors to present the first empirical evidence that...
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Reforming the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: Health Check, Budget Review, Doha Round
This Policy Brief provides recommendations for agricultural policy reform in the EU. It argues, first, that all measures that distort market...