The Europe Center is jointly housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Global Studies Division.
Investment
Scholarly Publications
Equity Duration and Predictability
August 2020
One of the most puzzling findings in asset pricing is that expected returns dominate variation in the dividend-to-price ratio, leaving little room for dividend growth rates.
Agriculture
December 2009
As the Doha Development Round trade negotiations have stalled, bilateral and regional free trade agreements have become an important alternative.
Proliferation of International Dispute Settlement Mechanisms: The Threat of Fragmentation vs. the Promise of a More Effective System? - Some Reflections from the Perspective of Investment Arbitration
December 2008
(From the introduction) For more than a decade, international lawyers and international relations scholars have been fascinated by an ever-increasing number of international courts and tribunals....
Other Publications
Leverage and Beliefs: Personal Experience and Risk-Taking in Margin Lending
January 2017
What determines risk-bearing capacity and the amount of leverage in financial markets?
News
Former U.N. Special Envoy to Darfur Jan Eliasson addresses global crisis management
April 2009
Addressing the Forum on Contemporary Europe, Ambassador Jan Eliasson offered a new model for global crisis management of concerns ranging from piracy to global poverty.
Old Events
The Future of Multi-National Corporate Taxation in the European Union – Impact of On-Going EU State Aid Investigations
September 29, 2016
According to the OECD, corporate taxation has steadily fallen since 1994 and today represents around 8.5 per cent of all taxes raised by governments across the globe.
Mixed Signals: Crisis Lending and Capital Markets
March 13, 2014
This seminar is part of the "Europe and the Global Economy" series. How do geopolitical forces influence international capital markets?
The Political Economy of Transatlantic Free Trade
March 7, 2013
In his State of the Union address on February 12 President Obama announced that the US will set up a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the European Union.
Projects
Europe and the Global Economy
Although each nation in Europe retains its distinct cultural, social and political identity, the region as a whole is among the world’s most economically integrated zones.
English
Technology Transfer Agreements in EU and U.S. Antitrust Law
Technological innovation and the transfer of the resulting intellectual property rights are indispensable to the economies of the European Union and the United States.
English