Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s recent China maneuver aims to strengthen economic ties and alleviate Chinese concerns about European protectionism. Despite advocating for pragmatic solutions, such as reducing tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, Sánchez’s efforts will likely have limited impact within the EU. The initiative risks further is...
欧盟委员会与中国电动汽车的对抗是一场高风险的地缘政治赌博，可能引发贸易战。反补贴调查对欧盟的团结和经济稳定构成了挑战，更高的关税可能引发政治和气候反弹，并招致中国的报复。在应对这一复杂问题时，平衡战略自主、经济安全和创新至关重要。
The European Commission’s confrontation with Chinese EVs is a high-stakes geopolitical maneuver full of risks, as it could ignite a trade war. The anti-subsidy probe tests EU geopolitical resolve amid internal divisions and economic challenges. Higher tariffs on Chinese EVs risk political and climate repercussions, with China likely to retaliate. T...
To what extent protectionism affects growth and (de)stabilizes the economies? Although the impact of protectionism on growth has been widely explored without reaching a consensus, few has been said on its impact on macroeconomic stability. The present paper attempts to gauge more precisely its implications using a Barro-type (Barro, 1990) endogenou...
Za stávající regulace (revenue cap přístup) musí v budoucnosti regulátor zvýšit poplatky tak, aby kompenzoval pokles příjmů v důsledku nižších objemů přenosu. Výpočty ukazují, že distribuční sazby tak mohou velmi výrazně vzrůst. / Under current regulation (revenue cap approach), the regulator must increase tariff fees in the future in order to comp...
Objective: Evaluate the application of ad valorem tariffs on beef imports in Mexico and their effects on production and consumption with 2020 data. Methodology: A non-linear programming (quadratic programming) partial equilibrium model was used, without considering storage. The national territory was divided into eight producer-consumer regions and...
There has still been too little detailed work on the protectionism that emerged in the wake of the Great Depression. In this paper we explore the experiences of two countries that have been largely neglected in the literature, the Netherlands and Netherlands East Indies (NEI). How did these traditionally free-trading economies respond to the Depres...
En Europe, en obligeant les opérateurs à relever les prix unitaires, la baisse inédite de la consommation d’eau conduit à une augmentation des factures, dont l’impact social potentiel remet en question le tarif de l’eau comme seul moyen de recouvrer les coûts, en particulier les coûts externes. Même l’OCDE admet que leurs gestionnaires recourent au...
Part of American Enterprise Institute's Wish List for 2024 Farm Bill: https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/all-we-want-for-christmas-ag-policy/ / The past seven years have left the US trade agenda in shambles. In four short years, the Trump administration did its best to reverse a 75-year trend toward more open global markets—liberalization...
My PhD thesis consists of 4 papers that analyse uncertainty, specifically trade policy uncertainty, by examining its best measurement and its impacts on firms’ international and domestic operations. The first paper, “Improving the Trade Policy Uncertainty Index”, studies how best to measure trade policy uncertainty. I show that Baker et al.’s (2016...
