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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 4: What is Trump’s trade strategy for China and Europe? With Frank Lavin
Fredrik Erixon talks to Frank Lavin, the founder and CEO of Export Now, who has served as U.S. Ambassador to Singapore and undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade. They discuss U.S. trade...
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Episode 3: What to expect from the future US trade policy? With Elena Bryan
Fredrik Erixon talks to Elena Bryan, a Senior Fellow at ECIPE and a Managing Director at Pilot Roc Global Strategies a trade and regulatory consultancy in the United States. The discussion covers the...
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Myanmar: Open for Business or Closed by Sanctions?
The Status Quo In January Aung Sang Suu Kyi stood at a platform in a brightly lit conference centre in Naypyidaw. The room was ostentatious and so was her speech. Citing the series of economic...
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Plucking the Digital Goose
The art of taxation consists of plucking the goose so as to obtain the most feathers with the least hissing This pearl of wisdom came from Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’s famed Minister of...
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Episode 2: Industrial policy is coming back! With Oscar Guinea
Fredrik Erixon talks to Oscar Guinea, a senior economist at ECIPE. On the back of their new study Standing Up for Competition: Market Concentration, Regulation, and Europe’s Quest for a New...
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Standing up for Competition
Picture the 100 meters final in the Olympic Games. 30 meters before the end, Usain Bolt starts to slow down. With five meters to go, all the runners hold hands and cross the finish line at the very...
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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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What does the future hold for US trade policy?
Last year was a difficult year for free trade and the international rules-based system. No doubt the US played an important role in this: It threatened old trade partners like Canada and the EU with...
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Online Platform Restrictions and Small Firm Exports
Stricter rules on online platforms restrain potential trade, especially for smaller businesses. This is because online platforms facilitate export and import by lowering transaction and information...