Breaking Up Is Hard To Do : Britain and Europe’s Dysfunctional Relationship.

Intro -- _Ref337633482 -- Ref_XBasel%3Areprcb -- Ref_XGoodhartC%3Afisbsc -- Ref_XTurnerA%3Aturnrr -- Ref_XCihakM%3Acasebc -- Table 1 Estimates of tariff equivalents on manufactured goods resulting from all trade barriers (in per cent) -- Table 2 Effects of UK and EU tariff of 10 per cent on agriculture and manufacturing: percentage changes from base -- Table 3 A survey of costs from EU membership -- Table 4 Key European employment directives -- Figure 1 UK membership of international bodies -- Figure 2 Level and composition of producer support in OECD countries -- Figure 3 History and reforms of the CAP -- Figure 4 Scale and dependency -- Figure 5 Emissions intensity, Europe versus the US -- The authors -- Foreword -- Summary -- Tables and figures -- 1 Introduction -- Patrick Minford and J. R. Shackleton -- Principles -- Policies -- Change has to come -- References -- 2 Assigning responsibilities in a federal system -- Martin Ricketts -- Introduction -- Public goods and interjurisdictional spillovers -- Competition between jurisdictions -- The race to the bottom -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Institutions for European cooperation -- Roland Vaubel -- The renegotiation -- Which institutions does European cooperation require? A summary -- Cooperation - for what? -- The institutions of a common market -- Institutions for joint policies regarding external and scale economies -- Institutions for redistribution among member countries -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Beyond the ghosts: does EU membership nourish or consume Britain's interests and global influence? -- Gwythian Prins -- Economic measurements are insufficient to judge this question -- How best to nourish British interests: two paradoxes -- Why the EU and its fears are older than you think -- The transforming consequences of the euro -- The flaw in Europeanism -- What the ghosts did.

To the July crisis: the hollowing out of European politics -- Gulliver and the balance of competences -- Successful negotiation requires informed statesmanship -- References -- 5 Transforming the UK's relationship with the EU: the legal framework -- Martin Howe -- How to transform our relationship with the EU -- How UK withdrawal from the EU would work -- Renegotiation from within -- References -- 6 Freedom of movement -- Philippe Legrain -- Why freedom of movement is the right policy -- Why EU membership offers the best of both worlds -- References -- 7 Evaluating European trading arrangements -- Patrick Minford -- What trade theory has to say about the EU customs union -- The cost of EU protection -- The CGE model -- Considerations of 'Brexit' -- What about a trade agreement with the EU? -- Opposing views -- Conclusions -- References -- 8 UK employment regulation in or out of the EU -- J. R. Shackleton -- Europe's reach -- European law and the labour market -- Why intervention? -- European political economy -- Would repatriation of powers over the labour market make enough of a difference? -- A minimum level of regulation? -- References -- 9 Prospects for a reformed agricultural policy -- Séan Rickard -- Introduction -- A politically driven policy -- An inefficient and ineffective policy -- Prospects for radical reform of the CAP -- Visualising a reformed UK agricultural policy outside the EU -- End piece -- References -- 10 Freedom for fisheries? -- Rachel Tingle -- 1957-69: the conception and early development of the CFP -- 1970-82: the establishment of common Community waters -- 1983-92: the development of a fisheries management system -- 1993-2002: the introduction of vessel licensing and effort controls -- 2003-13: reform of the CFP -- 2014 onwards: last chance for the CFP? -- Appendix: the UK system for apportioning national fishing quotas.

References -- 11 Stuck in Brussels: should transport policy be determined at EU level? -- Kristian Niemietz and Richard Wellings -- Introduction -- The aims of EU transport policy -- Key policy initiatives -- Economic impact -- Centralisation versus competition and discovery -- Regulatory scale as market discovery process -- Conclusion -- References -- 12 Bank regulation: starting over -- David Mayes and Geoffrey Wood -- Banks and bank failures -- Liquidity and the lender of last resort -- Loss of capital in the nineteenth century -- Banking in the twenty-first century -- Size and structure -- Incentives -- Cross-border -- Capital -- Depositors -- The EU response -- Concluding remarks -- References -- 13 Young, single, but not free - the EU market for financial services -- Philip Booth -- Introduction -- The regulation of insurance companies pre-1970 -- The EU, the single market and free trade -- The beginning of the end of mutual recognition and deregulation -- From common market to single market, harmonisation and centralisation -- Single market or free market? -- The costs and benefits of uniform EU regulation -- Other areas of EU financial regulation -- Conclusion -- References -- 14 Better energy and climate policy -- Matthew Sinclair -- The problem -- The EU response -- Targets for emissions reduction -- Emissions trading -- Renewable energy subsidies -- Green taxes -- An alternative -- Resilience -- Adaptation -- Technology -- Conclusions -- References -- 15 EU lifestyle regulation -- Christopher Snowdon -- Introduction -- Competence and EU law -- Ad hoc prohibitions -- State-funded activists: pushing the envelope -- Implications of a 'Brexit' -- Conclusion -- References -- About the IEA.

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