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Green Protectionism in the European Union: How Europe’s Biofuels Policy and the Renewable Energy Directive Violate WTO Commitments
What happened to the professed environmental goal to substitute fossil fuels wit biofuels, asks Fredrik Erixon in a new study of EU biofuels policy....
The Optimal Basel Capital Requirement to Cope with Pro-cyclicality: A Theoretical Approach
This paper focuses on the role of the Basel capital requirement and proposes a new counter cyclical measure by use of a simple general equilibrium...
The WTO’s Trade Policy Review Mechanism: How to Create Political Will for Liberalization
The economic crisis has sparked fears about emerging protectionism and created wide interest in initiatives to monitor trade policies. The WTO...
Does the Trading System have a Future?
There is a great deal of ruin in the trading system. Yet, in many respects it has been a huge success. The opening of the world economy of the...
Liberalising Air Cargo Services in APEC
This study aims at assessing the link between a more liberal air cargo regime and increased bilateral merchandise trade in the Asia Pacific...
The Doha Round: “Death-Defying Agenda” or “Don’t Do it Again”?
Almost eight years after the launch of the WTO's Doha Round, negotiations remain mired in a swamp of detail, with many participants unwilling or...
How to Revive Doha with Some Chance of Success
This Policy Brief concerns the troubled state of the Doha Round. The classical model for a multilateral trade negotiation (as developed from the GATT...
Leveraging Trade in Services to Consolidate Global Economic Recovery: An Agenda for the G-20
The time is ripe for G-20 policymakers to take strong and decisive action to reduce the costs of providing services abroad, because: 1. The costs...