Insights
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Transatlantic Trade Relations: Return to Normal?
Trump’s rhetoric on trade during his election campaign set a bad tone for US trade policy in general, but also for EU-US trade relations. However, his views – or at least his rhetoric – on many...
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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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Book Review: Europe in Emerging Asia
Europe in Emerging Asia, Opportunities and Obstacles in Political and Economic Encounters, edited by Fredrik Erixon and Krishnan Srinivasan This collection of ‘essays’, written largely from...
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Strategic Challenge or Economic Benefit? Interpreting China’s FDI Flows
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and national security are often adversarial to one another. This is particularly the case with outward FDI from China targeting strategic infrastructure in various...
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A US Retreat from TPP: What Does Services Trade Tell Us?
During last weekend’s summit meeting of Asia-Pacific leaders in Peru, President Obama made the case that failure to sign on to TPP would “undermine our position across the region”. It would...
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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...
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Interview with Johan Norberg, author of ‘Progress – Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future’
ECIPE: In the current age of misery there is this feeling that the world is getting darker and that the sky is about to fall down. You chronicle and detail a radically different view. What is the...
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Brexit – the Trade Agenda: or Rights and Privileges that Will Be Lost and Will Have to Be Replaced*
This note is written on the basis that exit from the EU entails some automatic loss of privileges, which can then be renegotiated with trade partners, either rapidly or in some cases over time. But...
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The Impact of Globalisation on South Korea’s Nuclear Industry and its Strategic Choices
South Korea’s nuclear industry has emerged in recent years to become a significant player in what is a competitive market. Its biggest achievement so far has been the $20 billion contract to...
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Q&A with Fredrik Erixon and Björn Weigel, authors of The Innovation Illusion – How so Little is Created by so Many Working so Hard (Yale University Press)
Question: Why is there an innovation illusion? Answer: People are almost daily fed with horror stories about how robots, artificial intelligence, or smart machines are going to destroy jobs and make...