The submission of papers in the following thematic areas is encouraged: - Analysis and assessments of the economic, social and environmental impact of trade liberalization, with a particular focus on recent EU trade agreements - The politics of trade in the EU, with a particular focus on...

A suggestive list of categories may be: - market regulation - market structure (sectoral/inter-sectoral, labor/product) - governance - role/implication of the public sector - fairness, justice, distribution - labor market regulation and welfare systems - financial sector - international context...

The new “new economy” involves not only novel information, but it is also characterized by increased spatial and functional fragmentations of the value-added chains. On the one hand they may give rise to information failures and problems of uncertainty which require the development of new...