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André SAPIR
André SAPIR
Address: 50, Av. F.D. Roosevelt
CP 114
B-1050 Brussels
BELGIUM
Visitors : 44, avenue Jeanne
1050 Brussels
11th floor - Office S 11.216

Phone #: +32 2 650 23 45
Fax #: +32 2 650 44 75
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Main Field: European Integration and International Trade
Second Field: Competition and Research Policy
Third Field: Political Economics and Collective Decisions
Profile:

André Sapir holds a PhD in Economics from The Johns Hopkins University, 1977. He is professor at ULB, where he holds a chair in international economics and European integration.

He is also a Senior Fellow of the Brussels European and Global Economic Laboratory (BRUEGEL) and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). In addition, he is a member of European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso’s Economic Policy Analysis Group.

He was an Economic Adviser to European Commission President Romano Prodi (2001-2004) and the Chairman of the High-Level Study Group appointed by him that produced the 2003 report “An Agenda for a Growing Europe”, widely known as the “Sapir Report”, published by Oxford University Press in March 2004.

He is a founding Editorial Board Member of the World Trade Review, published by Cambridge University Press and the World Trade Organisation.

Selected Works:

European Strategies for Growth. In M. Artis and F. Nixson (eds.), Economics of the European Union, Third Edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007.

Last Exit to Lisbon. Bruegel Policy Brief 2006/02, Bruegel, Brussels (with Jean Pisani-Ferry).

Globalisation and the Reform of European Social Models. Journal of Common Market Studies, 2006.

Un Modello Obsoleto? Crescita e Specializzone dell’Economia Italiana. In T. Boeri, R. Faini, A. Ichino, G. Pisauro and C. Scarpa (eds.), Oltre il Declino, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2005 (with Riccardo Faini).

An Agenda for a Growing Europe: The Sapir Report, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004 (co-authored with Philippe Aghion, Giuseppe Bertola, Martin Hellwig, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Dariusz Rosati, José Viñals, Helen Wallace and Marco Buti, Mario Nava, Peter M. Smith). Italian translation published by Il Mulino, Bologna, 2004.

Who’s Afraid of Globalization? Domestic Adjustment in Europe and America. In R.B. Porter, P. Sauvé, A. Subramanian and A.B. Zampetti (eds.), Efficiency, Equity, and Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium, Harvard University and Brookings Institution Press, 2001.

Economic Policy in EMU, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998 (co-authored and co-edited with Marco Buti). Italian translation published by Il Mulino, Bologna, 1999.

The Political Economy of EC Regionalism. European Economic Review, 1998.

Teaching:

International Trade Theory :

Lecture 1: Globalization Trade and the Crisis - Course Outline and Timetable

Global Monitoring Report 2009: Pressing Ahead with Trade Openness

Multilateralism Beyong Doha, Aaditya Mattoo (World Bank)

Literature :

Lecture 11 WTO & PTAs

Lecture 12 Gasiorek

World Trade Report 2008 : Trade in a Globalizing World

Trade and Geography-Economies of Scale, Differentiated Products
and Transport Costs - Krugman

"New Trade", "New Geography", and the Troubles of Manufacturing
Slides (Paul Krugman-08/12/2008)

European Microeconomics

Ever Closer to heaven ? An Optimum-Currency-Area Index fro European Countries, Tammim Bayoumi and Barry Eichengreen, EER 41 (1997) 761-770

Competition Policy: Toward a new approach, Frederico Etro

European State Aid Control: an Economic Framework, Hans Friederiszick, Lars-Hendrik Roller, Vincent Verouden

Quantifying the Effects from Horizontal Mergers in European Competition Policy, Marc Ivaldi, Frank Verboven

The Current Financial Crisis and RU Competition Policies, Damien Neven

Competition Policy, Bailouts and the Economic Crisis, Bruce Lyons

The Endogeneity of the Optimum Currency Area Criteria, Jeffrey Frankel, Andrew K. Rose

A Brief History of European Monetary Arrangements, Holger Breinlich

Federal Policies and Local Economies: Europe and the US, Mario Forni and Lucrezia Reichlin

The High Level-Group in Financial Supervision in the EU, Report

Current Affiliations: ECARES, ULB
Bruegel
CEPR

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