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Fredrik Erixon
fredrik.erixon@ecipe.org
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 Director of ECIPE, which he co-founded in 2006 together with Razeen Sally. Prior to founding ECIPE, Erixon was the Chief Economist of Timbro, the leading Swedish think tank, where he supervised Timbro’s economics research programme and specialised in international and development economics. He has been a consultant to international organisations, companies, governments and ministries.
Fredrik Erixon is the author of several books and papers on international economics and international political economy. He has earlier been a researcher in economics and an analyst at JP Morgan. Erixon has a BSc in Economics and has been a PhD student in international economics. He was educated at Uppsala University, Oxford University and the London School of Economics.
ECIPE Publications
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Problems with Carbon Tariffs (Fredrik Erixon debates carbon tariffs in the European Voice)
- A Shallow Argument in Favour of Trade Limits (Fredrik Erixon debates carbon tariffs in the European Voice)
- Online Censorship Equals Protectionism (Fredrik Erixon and Hosuk Lee-Makiyama on online protectionism in the WSJ)
- A Sorry Tale of Protectionism (Fredrik Erixon in the European Voice about trade and environment)
- Green Protectionism in the EU (Fredrik Erixon on biofuels in the TNI)
Media Coverage
- EU, Vietnam Starts Free Trade Talks (Fredrik Erixon in the WSJ about the launch of FTA negotiations)
- Merkel and Economic Worries (Fredrik Erixon on economic trends in Bloomberg)
- Protectionism is on the Rise (Die Presse comments Erixon’s and Sally’s paper on emerging protectionism)
- Greek Economic Problems (Fredrik Erixon comments fiscal policy in Greece in Business Week)
- Bulgarian Pulls Her Nomination (Fredrik Erixon comments in the WSJ the withdrawal of Rumiana Jeleva as Bulgaria’s commissioner)