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Episode 10: Understanding Recent Trade Frictions with Alan Beattie
Fredrik Erixon talks to Alan Beattie, the European leader writer for the Financial Times, an associate fellow at Chatham House and the author of False Economy. Alan calls in to talk about some...
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Episode 6: Fighting Populism on the Right with Dalibor Rohac
Fredrik Erixon talks to Dalibor Rohac, a Research Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. During the discussion they try to answer why are we experiencing a reverse in economic globalisation and...
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Episode 1: The EU-UK Trade Relations After Brexit with David Henig
On our first episode, Fredrik Erixon talks to David Henig, the director of the UK Trade Policy Project. The discussion focuses on the future of EU-U.K. trade relations, whether Britain will be a free...
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Why the UK Government’s Brexit Proposals Were Defeated in Parliament Twice
There is a general rule of international negotiations, which is to make sure you have sufficient domestic support to ensure whatever you agree with other countries is ratified at home. You therefore...
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Who Are the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly? Not What Mr. Boris Johnson Thinks
When announcing his “Better Plan for Brexit” in The Daily Telegraph, Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson observed “that the one size fits all EU model of regulation—according to the...
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Brexit: The Marginal Effects of EU Agricultural Subsidies on UK Trade
Although it is yet unclear when exactly and under which conditions, but the UK will eventually leave the Single Market. Several studies have therefore assessed the expected impacts of reintroduced...
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Brexit: Leaving the EU – What Lies Ahead?
The current Brexit debate is mainly about the transition period which will probably follow the UK’s exit from the EU in March 2019. I say probably because, while both sides agree on the principle...
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After Florence: a Step Forward, but Whose Turn to Go Next?
So where do matters stand with the UK-EU negotiations for an orderly separation or withdrawal agreement? Three major events – the Lancaster House speech in January, followed by the Article 50...
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What’s the Economic Impact of Brexit and the US Withdrawal from TPP?
Dr Kenichi Kawasaki, Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo and a leading expert on quantitative modelling of trade liberalisation, revisited ECIPE on March...
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Brexit – The Trade Agenda Moves One Step Further
In a previous blog I described the UK trade agenda, the four principal areas where the UK will be losing trade access or trade rights and privileges as a result of Brexit. I presume that the...