Life after the multilateral trading system
This article was published by Nikkei Veritas, Caixin, LeMonde, Handelsblatt and Corriere. The China-US trade talks, crucial as they are, divert attention from the main event: the World Trade Organization, the essential i...
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What drives national implementation of EU policy recommendations?
We use a newly-compiled dataset to investigate whether and why European Union countries implement the economic policy recommendations they receive from the EU. We find that implementation rates are modest and have worsen...
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EU-China partnership after the 21st EU-China summit
I discuss with Alicia Garcia Herrero the results of the 21st EU-China Summit...
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Promoting sustainable and inclusive growth and convergence in the European Union
This Policy Contribution was written for the Informal ECOFIN Meeting, Bucharest, 5 April 2019. The authors look at the EU’s economic agenda, discussing the priorities for the next five years. It can be downloaded HERE. M...
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How to make Industry 4.0 work for Europe
I discusses Industry 4.0 with Harvard University Berkman Klein fellow Padmashree Gehl Sampath....
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China’s place in the global trading system
Bruegel director Guntram Wolff and senior fellow André Sapir discuss how potential WTO reform could better accommodate China. In this Director’s Cut of ‘The Sound of Economics’, Guntram Wolff talks to B...
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BBC interviews on Brexit
Morning of March 22, you can find me here in BBC’s Marketplace . And the bigger show “In the balance” is here. ...
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The European Union’s response to the trade crisis
The global trading system, a source of prosperity, is under attack on various fronts. The causes run deep and require a strategic response from the European Union and from the main trading nations. The future of the syst...
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