Germany's G-8 Presidency occurs in a formative period for German foreign economic policy. It is about to step out of the post-Cold War order, but has not yet found a comprehensive strategy for global engagement. Hitherto Germany has had a flexible approach to its G-8 Presidency and neglected to...

The BRIICS - Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa - are the largest developing countries in their respective regions. A snapshot of their trade policies shows they have already liberalised trade and foreign direct investment extensively, and thereby plugged themselves into...

This Policy Brief aims at examining Ukraine's economic woes and what it needs to do to improve economic performance. At the centre of the Brief are the effects on Ukraine of the economic crisis and the policy programme devised to improve economic performance. The crisis hit Ukraine hard and...

The election of Trump into the Oval Office is much of a non-event for EU trade-policy detail, possibly even the TTIP: they have been deteriorating for years. Europe and the global trading system can survive new trade frictions and creeping protectionism, but a Trump that wants to go radical will...

The Treaty of Lisbon will introduce a number of changes to European Union (EU) external trade policy decision making. These involve the scope of exclusive competence of the EU, the role of the European Parliament and the inclusion of trade in the common external action of the EU. This article...

Im ifo Schnelldienst 9/2017 wurde Ricardos bahnbrechende Leistungen für die moderne Volkswirtschaftslehre gewürdigt. Wolfram F. Richter, Technische Universität Dortmund, setzt sich in seinem Kommentar mit dem Zahlenbeispiel in Ricardos Theorie komparativer Kosten auseinander und fragt, wie...

Gabriel Felbermayr zeigt, wie Ricardos Modell für eine modere handelspolitische Beratung genutzt werden kann.