Beyond the WTO? An anatomy of EU and US preferential trade agreements
by Henrik Horn, Petros C. Mavroidis , André Sapir on 09 February 2009
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Category: BLUEPRINTS
Topics: Emerging economies and development, European and global governance, Trade, investment and competitiveness
This Blueprint looks in detail at all the provisions of all the PTAs signed by the EC or the US and other WTO members. Henrik Horn, Petros C. Mavroidis and André Sapir find that Europe and the US have adopted different approaches to PTAs; however, both powers may also be seeking to project their priorities.
The Accidental Player: The European Union and the Global Economy
by Jean Pisani-Ferry on 15 January 2009
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Category: EXTERNAL PUBLICATIONS
Topics: European and global governance
Bruegel Director Jean Pisani-Ferry reflects on the future role of the European Union in the global economy, focusing on the EU's representation in international economic organizations; the way it uses the power it has; the involvement of the member states and the EU as such in this external representation; and the choices it faces. This is a chapter published in the 2009 book The European Union and International Organisations, edited by Knud Erik Jorgensen.
The International agenda: immediate priorities and longer-term challenges
by Jean Pisani-Ferry on 04 December 2008
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Category: POLICY CONTRIBUTIONS
Topics: Emerging economies and development, European and global governance
This policy contribution comprises Jean Pisani-Ferry's remarks at the Asian Development Bank Institute Annual Conference. For him, the challenge policymakers are facing, is to not to waste time before addressing the urgent tasks ahead of them and not to lose the momentum for reform created by the crisis. The sense of urgency and commonality should not be lost.
A European recovery programme
by Jean Pisani-Ferry, André Sapir, Jakob von Weizsäcker on 25 November 2008
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Category: POLICY BRIEFS
Topics: Budgetary and monetary policies, Competition and single market, European and global governance
Jean Pisani-Ferry, André Sapir and Jakob von Weizsäcker
have put together a programme which combines an immediate budgetary
stimulus by all EU countries with country-specific measures via the
implementation of four concrete steps:
1. budgetary boost
2. reform commitment
3. enforcement and
4. prudent borrowing.
Will the current crisis trigger a revival of the IMF?
by Jean Pisani-Ferry on 31 October 2008
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Category: POLICY CONTRIBUTIONS
Topics: Currencies and International finance, European and global governance
In this Policy Contribution, Jean Pisani-Ferry, takes a look at the way the IMF his gradually making its come-back from an era of crisis confidence and legitimacy. The author believes the Fund could gain a significant role as the key institution that links macroeconomic and financial developments and draw implications for macrofinancial supervision, relying on others such as the FSF for implementation. He outlines a series of recommendations to reach this objective.