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The Gini Trade Index: What can we learn from a new trade indicator?

Cernat, Lucian - 2024

This Policy Brief introduces the Gini Trade Index (GTI) as a new trade synthetic key performance indicator capable of capturing the different distribution of trade values across firm characteristics and across countries. The new indicator replicates the well-known features of the traditional...

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Calling on the EU-US Trade and Technology Council: How to deliver for the planet and the economy

Guinea, Oscar; Sharma, Vanika; Lamprecht, Philipp; … - 2024

This Policy Brief proposes the establishment of an agreement on conformity assessment between the EU and the US that covers machinery and electrical equipment. The initiative aims to increase the number of European and US conformity assessment bodies authorized to test and certify EU and US...

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Regulating the working conditions of platform work: What can we learn from EU member states?

Guinea, Oscar; Sisto, Elena; du Roy, Oscar - 2024

This Policy Brief offers a comprehensive evaluation and comparison of the regulatory frameworks governing platform work in four European countries. The comparative analysis draws upon research conducted by the OECD and the World Economic Forum (WEF) on the principles of good regulation. Adapting...

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The Eurozone's arrested adolescence: Sketching a way out of the crisis

Erixon, Fredrik - 2012

The Eurozone crisis has been reinforced and prolonged by leaders' inability to agree on robust and credible crisis … responses. Individual governments are experiencing sovereign deficit and debt crises, but not the Eurozone at large. Its fiscal … position is manageable. The Eurozone is rather going through a crisis of the sovereign - or a crisis of government. Too many of …

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Did euro leaders say goodbye to the IMF?

Erixon, Fredrik - 2012

This policy brief takes stock of the agreement by Eurozone countries in late June at the European summit. If this … agreement survives (which is by no means certain) and is utilised, Eurozone governments will have opened the door to a flexible … between the Eurozone and the IMF in new rescue packages. (...) …

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A forward-thinking approach to open strategic autonomy: Navigating EU trade dependencies and risk mitigation

Bauer, Matthias; du Roy, Oscar; Sharma, Vanika - 2023

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EU and Mercosur in the twenty-first century: Taking stock of the economic and cultural ties

Guinea, Oscar; Sharma, Vanika - 2021

This policy brief examines the latest developments in the EU-Mercosur economic relationship and outlines the existing non-economic relationship in order to contextualise the EU-Mercosur Association Agreement and its potential for strengthening common bonds between both regions.

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The future of EU leadership in the car industry: Still global

Henig, David; Lee-Makiyama, Hosuk - 2021

This study considers how best to maintain a globally thriving EU car sector in the face of several interrelated challenges. The climate emergency necessitates a dramatic reduction in emissions to net-zero impacting across the economy, which leads to a fundamental shift in automotive products and...

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Time for fresh thinking on Northern Ireland and Brexit

Henig, David - 2022

The Good Friday / Belfast Agreement became, with considerable efforts over several years from so many involved, a broadly accepted if never fully stable political framework for Northern Ireland. A year after implementation, the prospect of the Northern Ireland Protocol delivering similar results...

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Open RAN: The technology, its politics and Europe's response

Lee-Makiyama, Hosuk - 2020

This policy brief explores the implications of Open RAN concept and its technical and political developments in the mobile network industry. Open RAN is not necessarily a new technology in itself, but represents a combination of existing technologies, e.g. virtualisation, AI, commercial...

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