Fredrik Erixon

fredrik.erixon@ecipe.org

Office: +32 (0)2 289 13 57
Mobile: +46 (0)709 733 683

Areas of expertise

• East Africa
• EU regulatory policy
• EU trade policy
• Foreign aid
• Health care policies
• IMF and the World Bank
• International and development economics
• Nordic trade, economic and welfare Policy
• World Trade Organisation

Fredrik Erixon is a Swedish economist and writer. He is the Director of the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), a world-economy think tank based in Brussels he co-founded in 2006 together with Professor Razeen Sally. Since then Erixon has led the development of ECIPE to become one of Brussels’ leading research-based institutes. One of the leading world economy think tanks in the world, ECIPE has been awarded with several prizes. In 2010 the Financial Times ranked Erixon as one of Brussels 30 most influential people.

Fredrik Erixon is the author of several books and studies in the fields of international economics, economic policy, and regulatory affairs (welfare reforms, healthcare competition policy, et cetera). He has also advised several governments in Europe and the rest of the world, and is a frequent speaker at conferences.Prior to starting ECIPE, Erixon was an Adviser to the British government and the Chief Economist of Timbro, a Swedish think tank. He started his career as an economist in the Prime Minister’s Office in Sweden and has later worked as an economist at the World Bank and for JP Morgan as an emerging market analyst. Erixon was educated at the University of Oxford, London School of Economics and Uppsala University.

ECIPE Publications

• What is Driving the Rise in Health Care Expenditures? An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Cost Disease (ECIPE Working Paper No. 05/2011)
• Ideas for New Transatlantic Initiatives on Trade (Transatlantic Task Force on Trade Working Paper 3)
• Digital Authoritarianism: Human Rights, Geopolitics and Commerce (ECIPE Occasional Paper No. 5/2011)
• Value For Money: Getting Europe's Trade and IPR Policy Right (ECIPE Occasional Paper No. 1/2011)
• Securing Korea's Prosperity in the Next Century: An analysis of the Korea-EU Free Trade Agreement (ECIPE Occasional Paper No. 4/2010)
• Ukraine After the Crisis: Recovery and Reform, not Revolution or Russification (ECIPE Policy Brief No. 04/2010)
• Baltic Economic Reforms: A Crisis Review of Baltic Economic Policy (ECIPE Working Paper No. 4/2010)
• Stepping into Asia's Growth Markets: Dispelling Myths about the EU-Korea Free Trade Agreement (ECIPE Policy Brief No. 03/2010)
• Vested and Invested Interests: The Role of Investment Protection in EU-Russia Relations (ECIPE Policy Brief No. 02/2010)
• A Transatlantic Zero Agreement: Estimating the Gains from Transatlantic Free Trade in Goods (ECIPE Occasional Paper No. 4/2010)
• Beyond Geopolitics - The Case for a Free Trade Accord between Europe and Taiwan (ECIPE Occasional Paper No. 03/2010)
• The Case Against Europe's 2020 Agenda (ECIPE Policy Brief No. 01/2010)
• Trade, Globalisation and Emerging Protectionism Since the Crisis (ECIPE Working Paper No. 2/2010)
• The Quest for Gas Market Competition (ECIPE Occasional Paper No. 1/2010)
• Green Protectionism in the European Union: How Europe’s Biofuels Policy and the Renewable Energy Directive Violate WTO Commitments (ECIPE Occasional Paper No. 1/2009)
• A New Trade Agenda for Transatlantic Economic Cooperation (ECIPE Working Paper No. 09/2009)
• Containing Creeping Protectionism: A Realist Agenda for the G20 (ECIPE Policy Brief No. 1, 2009)
• The Baltic Tiger - The Political Economy of Estonia’s Transition from Plan to Market (ECIPE Paper, November, 2008)
• Europe’s Energy Dependency and Russia’s Commercial Assertiveness (ECIPE Policy Brief No. 07/2008)
• Sweden – from free trade to protectionism? (ECIPE Policy Brief No. 1/2008)
• From Twin Towers to Fawlty Towers – a Story of the Doha Round (mimeo) (ECIPE Paper, July, 2008)
• Globalization, Earnings and Consumer Prices: Taking Stock of the Benefits From Globalization (ECIPE Policy Brief No. 5/2008 )
• The Health of Nations: Conceptualizing Approaches to Trade in Health Care (ECIPE Policy Brief No. 4/2008)
• An EU-China trade dialogue: a new policy framework to contain deteriorating trade relations (ECIPE Policy Brief No. 3/2008)
• Kazakhstan and the World Economy: An Assessment of Kazakhstan’s Trade Policy and Pending Accession to the WTO (ECIPE Jan Tumlir Essay No. 01/2008)
• The Rome Treaty at 50 (ECIPE Policy Briefs No. 04, 2007)
• Germany and the G-8 Presidency (ECIPE Policy Brief No. 2, 2007)

Other Books and Papers

• European Vertigo (Briefing Note for the European Summit - December 7, 2011)
• A Crisis of the Sovereign: The Eurozone Crisis (Essay by Fredrik Erixon, presented in Beijing/Hong Kong, November 2011)
• Towards a Free Trade Agreement between the EU and Taiwan? (Presentation, European Parliament Hearing)
• The Commission’s New Trade Strategy (Paper presented to the European Parliament workshop on EU trade strategy)
• Obituary for the Estonian kroon.pdf (A paper about Estonia’s currency policy and its adoption of the euro)
• The Twilight of Soft Mercantilism (Chapter in The Economic Impact of the Economic Crisis on the International Strategic Configuration)
• The Twilight of Soft Mercantilism: Europe and Foreign Economic Power (Paper presented at ISDP conference in Beijing, July 2009)
• The Dynamics of Structural Change - The EU's Trade with China (Jena Economic Papers)
• New EU Trade Regulations to Combat Illegal Logging: A Critique (Paper by Fredrik Erixon and Brian Hindley)
• Mounting Protectionist Dangers and responses from the G20 (Fredrik Erixon in a book by Chatham House on G20 responses to the economic crisis)
• World Trade and Trade Policy: New Impetus for Liberalization and Drift to Protectionism (Paper presented at KAS-SWP conference on March 19, 2009 )
• Antidumping is back in fashion (Article in the Wall Street Journal)
• Whither the G8? (Europe's World)
• Freihandel für Fortgeschrittene (Internationale Politik)
• China’s Forthcoming Crisis (Fredrik Erixon reviews books on China in the Internationale Politik (English version).)
• Fighting the Urge for Protectionism (Razeen Sally and Fredrik Erixon warns for rising protectionism in the Far Eastern Economic Review)
• Will US trade policy become protectionist under President Obama? (Paper by Fredrik Erixon, November 2008)
• China's trade policy post WTO accession (Paper presented at Oxford conference on The Microeconomic Drivers of Growth in China)
• Globalisierung und Weltwirtschaft (Fredrik Erixon on "The Quest for Economic Growth" in Internationale Politik )
• Russia as competitor and energy provider for the European Union (Text presented at Atlantik Brücke’s Young Leaders Conference in Ukraine.)
• Health Toursim can be Healthy (Lucy Davis and Fredrik Erixon on trade in healthcare in Business Daily )
• Tougher Action Needed in the China Shop (Fredrik Erixon on EU-China relations in the European Voice)
• Europe should not resist free trade in healthcare (Fredrik Erixon writes about the importance of opening the health care sector for cross-border exchange in the Financial Times)
• EU und China schlittern in den Protektionismus (Fredrik Erixon and Andreas Freytag on EU-China relations in Handelsblatt (in German) )
• Membership Has Its Privileges (Brian Hindley and Fredrik Erixon on Kazakhstan's and Russia's renewing efforts to join the WTO, in the Wall Street Journal )
• Von Heiligendamm aus die Welt im Blick (Frankfurter Allgemein Zeitung)

Speeches and Presentations

• Towards a Free Trade Agreement between the EU and Taiwan (Presentation, European Parliament Hearing)
• Reforming IPRs in Europe (Presentation at ECIPE IPR Conference)
• Chinese Trade Policy after Ten Years in the WTO (Presentation at EU Council meeting)
• A Transatlantic Zero-Tariff Agreement (Presentation in Brussels October 5, 2010)
• EU Trade Patterns and the Role of Turkey (Presentation at IKV/Yeditepe in May 2010)
• Trade and Climate Change: What Now? (Presentation to the ICC Commission on Trade and Investment Policy, May 2010)
• Russia and Energy Security: The Role of Competition for External Energy Policy (Presentation at Sciences Po, May 2010)
• Green Protectionism in the European Union (Presentation at ICTSD in Geneva)
• Trade and Climate Change (Presentation to EFTA Committee, November 2009)
• A New Trade Agenda for Transatlantic Economic Cooperation (Presentation in Paris at MEDEF, November 2009)
• Conceptions and misconceptions about the economic rise of Asia (Presentation at ISDP Conference)
• World Trade Policy: New Impetus for Liberalization or Drift to Protectionism (Presentation at KAS-SWP conference in Berlin, March 19, 2009 )
• Climate change, trade and competitiveness – A European perspective (Presented at Geneva Annual China Dialogue. November, 27-28, 2008 )
• The Baltic Tiger – Estonian economic reforms (Presented in Washington DC, November 12, 2008)
• Denominators of EU-Asia Trade (Presentation at CERGU, October, 2008 )
• Chinese trade policy post-WTO accession and China-EU trade relations (Conference on Microeconomic Drivers of Growth in China, University of Oxford, 29/30th September 2008)
• Trade in the era of digital revolution (Presentation: Parliamentary conference on the WTO, Geneva 11-12 September, 2008 )
• Russia’s growing commercial assertiveness (Presented in June 2008 in Kiev at a conference hosted by Atlantik Brücke)
• Development Aid: Analysis, Critique, Direction (Presentation at the Templeton Foundation, June 30, 2008 )
• The untold story of globalization and the price of an Electrolux vacuum cleaner (Presentation for Electrolux, June 12, 2008)
• EU FTAs in the context of EU trade policy (Conference Jan 11, 2008 - Observer Research Fondation, New Delhi)
• EU-China Commercial Relations (Presentation at the Chinese Mission to the EU, 11 December 2007)
• Global Europe as External Dimension (Presented at a seminar at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, November 2007)
• European models for access to health care (Presentation held in Berlin, October 31, 2007)
• Innovation and IPRs ( Presentation at CEPOS/IPN Conference)
• The Marshall Plan at 60 (Presentation at US State Department)

Articles, Opinion and Commentary

• A Crisis of the Sovereign (Fredrik Erixon on the euro crisis in the Europe's World)
• The Eurozone Crisis (Fredrik Erixon interviewed by Greek Radio)
• Where is the lender of last resort? (Fredrik Erixon on the eurozone crisis and Italy)
• ECB Interest Rate Cut (Fredrik Erixon interviewed by Swiss TV channel on euro crisis and ECB)
• Seven Days – A Week in the Life of Fredrik Erixon (Fredrik Erixon keeps a diary for a week)

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Media Coverage

• Euro Leaders Race to Salvage Rescue Plans After Ratings Cuts (Fredrik Erixon comments in Business Week the S&P downgrade of France)
• Bailout Veteran Asmussen Adds to Angela Merkel’s Alumni at ECB (Fredrik Erixon comments in Bloomberg new ECB appointments)
• Merkel Says Downgrades Show Europe Must Redouble Efforts (Fredrik Erixon comments in Bloomberg rating agencies)
• The Last Chance to Save the Euro? (Fredrik Erixon comments in Time the Eurozone crisis)
• EU Debt Crisis (Fredrik Erixon comments in Financial Post the Eurozone crisis)

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