Peer Reviewed
Sweetening the Liberalization Pill: Flanking Measures to Free Trade Agreements (with Noémie Laurens and Cédric Dupont). Review of International Political Economy, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2024.2337193
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Free trade agreement (FTA) negotiators increasingly face pressure from domestic interest groups, including environmental NGOs, civil activists, and labor unions. As a result of the growing scrutiny on the content of FTAs, we are now witnessing a proliferation of instruments accompanying FTAs, which we group under the label of “flanking measures.” In this paper, we argue that flanking measures can serve two main non-exclusive purposes: increasing aggregate social welfare by mitigating the negative spillovers of FTAs on society (the substantive dimension) and helping to build domestic coalitions in support of trade liberalization (the political dimension). Despite the relevance and growing empirical importance of the concept, flanking remains largely overlooked in the IPE literature. This essay seeks to fill this gap by discussing the scope, purposes, and timing of flanking.
Global Value Chains: The Road to Resilience (with Selina Hauser and Israel Gutierrez). In: M. Elsig, R. Polanco and K. Claussen (Eds), The Concept Design of 21 Century Trade Agreements. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2024. (forthcoming)
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Global value chains (GVCs) are a key pillar of the trade environment today. While the rise of GVCs has long been associated with productivity- and welfare-boosting effects, recent events have exposed the vulnerability of globalised production networks. As a response, various governments have taken initiatives to make their supply chains more resilient. In general, two different approaches to GVCs resilience have emerged: First, national, bilateral and multilateral incentives often summarised under the label of “friend-shoring” or “ally-shoring”, which are set to strengthen the relationships with like-minded partners and to increase the strategic autonomy of countries. And second, attempts to promote supply chain diversification by putting incentives to increase international cooperation and risk sharing. This chapter focuses on the second approach to GVCs resilience, and explores which role international cooperation, and in particular, Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs), can play in making GCVs more resilient.
Policy Briefs & Others
Zur Diskussion der Effekte Künstlicher Intelligenz in der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Literatur. (with Christoph Menzel). BMWi, Diskussionspapier Nr. 8. 2018. (link)
Work in Progress
How Uncertainty Shocks Affect the Design of Trade Agreements (with Leopoldo Biffi)
Tailored Protectionism – How Big Firms Shape Non-Tariff Measures
Moving Win-Sets and the Continuous Negotiations of the EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement (with Noémie Laurens and Cédric Dupont)