Research faculty

Henrik Horn

Professor

Among the questions that Henrik Horn tries to answer with his research:

How should state-to-state investment agreements be designed, and what are their effects?
How should the jurisdiction to enforce competition law for standard-essential patents be allocated among national competition agencies?
How should trade agreements be designed to address national restrictions on cross-border data mobility?

New research

International Jurisdiction over Standard-Essential Patents Henrik Horn

Horn's research mainly focuses on issues at the intersection of Economics and Law, and in particular economic and legal aspects of international integration agreements, such as the WTO and the EU, and international investment agreements. Other interests include regulatory issues, and in particular competition policy. Henrik Horn has also done research in various other areas, including trade theory and trade policy, industrial organization, and labor economics.

Recent work

“Political Assessment of Possible Reactions of EU Main Trading Partners to EU Border Carbon Measures”, Report commissioned by Directorate General for External Policies, The European Parliament, 2020 (with André Sapir).
"How Global Trade Can Survive Border Carbon Adjustments", Milken Institute Review, June 4, 2020.
“Modernisera Sveriges investeringsskyddsavtal” (”Modernize the Swedish Investment Agreements), Ekonomisk Debatt, 2020 (With Pehr-Johan Norbäck).
“International Jurisdiction over Standard-Essential Patents”, IFN Working Paper No. 1 314, Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper 14 297, and Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Working Paper No. 2020/02.
“Economic Aspects of International Investment Agreements”, American Review of International Arbitration, Vol. 30, No.1, 11- 34, 2019 (With Pehr-Johan Norbäck). (Earlier version)
"Border Carbon Tariffs: Giving Up on Trade to Save the Climate?", Bruegel blog post, 29 August 2019 (With André Sapir).
“International Investment Agreements: Efficient Means of Promoting Swedish Growth?” Report commissioned by The Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis, 2019 (With Pehr-Johan Norbäck).
"Investor-State vs. State-State Dispute Settlement", Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper 14 480, 2020 (With Thomas Tangerås).
“Economics of International Investment Agreements”, Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper No 11 879, 2016, and IFN Working Paper No. 1 140, 2017 (With Thomas Tangerås) 979.
North-American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)”, Nationalencyclopedin, 2018.
“United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)”, Nationalencyclopedin, 2018.
“Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)”, Nationalencyclopedin, 2017.
“Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)”, Nationalencyclopedin, 2017.
“General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)”, Nationalencyklopedin, 2016.
“World Trade Organization (WTO)”, Nationalencyklopedin, 2016.
“Investment Protection in Regional Trade Agreements”, 2015 (WIth Chad P. Bown).
"Innebär TTIP och TPP att WTO är passé?", Ekonomisk Debatt, 2015 (6), 6-18.
“Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)”, Nationalencyklopedin 2015.
“Multilateral Environmental Agreements and the WTO: Silence Speaks Volumes”, International Journal of Economic Theory 10, 147–165, 2014. (med Petros C. Mavroidis) (Earlier version).
”The Time WTO Panels Require to Issue Reports”, Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper No 9554, 2013 and IFN Working Paper No. 979.
“The ECJ Judgment on the Extensions of the ETS to Aviation: An Economist’s Discontent”, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) Working Paper No. 980, 2013 979.
“Why the WTO? An Introduction to the Economics of Trade Agreements”, in Horn, Henrik and Petros C. Mavroidis (eds), Legal and Economic Principles of World Trade Law, Cambridge University Press, 2013 (With Gene M. Grossman) (Earlier version).
“Legal and Economic Principles of World Trade Law: National Treatment”, in Horn, Henrik and Petros C. Mavroidis (eds), Legal and Economic Principles of World Trade Law, Cambridge University Press, 2013 (With Gene M. Grossman and Petros C. Mavroidis) (Earlier version).
“In the Shadow of the DSU: Addressing Specific Trade Concerns in the WTO SPS and TBT Committees”, 2013. Journal of World Trade 47, August (With Petros C. Mavroidis and Erik Wijkström) (Earlier version).
"Internationell tjänstehandel: GATS-avtalet och Sverige” (”International trade in services: the GATS and Sweden”), in Henrik Jordahl (ed.), Kartläggning av tjänstesektorn i Sverige, Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien, 2012.
"The WTO Dispute Settlement System 1995-2010: Some Descriptive Statistics”, Journal of World Trade 45(6), 2011. (With Louise Johannesson and Petros C. Mavroidis).
"The WTO Dispute Settlement Data Set: User’s Guide”, 2011. (With Petros C. Mavroidis).
"MEAs and the WTO: Silence Speaks Volumes”, 2011. (With Petros C. Mavroidis).
"To B(TA) or Not to B(TA)? On the Legality and Desirability of Border Tax Adjustments from a Trade Perspective”, FERDI, Paris, June 2011. World Economy, 34(11), 1911-1937, 2011. (With Petros C. Mavroidis).
"The Burden of Proof in Trade Disputes and the Environment”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 62(1), 2011, 15–29. (Earlier version).
“Trade Agreements as Endogenously Incomplete Contracts”, American Economic Review, 100(1), 2010, 394-419. (With Giovanni Maggi and Robert W. Staiger.) Reprinted in Bacchetta, Marc and Michele Ruta (eds.),The WTO, Subsidies and Countervail, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011, and in Alan O. Sykes and James and Patricia Kowal (eds.), Economics of International Trade Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012.
"On the Role of MEAs in the WTO: Legislators’ Silence Speaks Volumes”, ENTWINED Issue Brief No. 07, 2011. (With Petros C. Mavroidis).
“Beyond the WTO? An Anatomy of EU and US Preferential Trade Agreements”,Bruegel Blueprint Series Volume VII, 2009. (With Petros C. Mavroidis and André Sapir.) Shorter version in The World Economy 33(11), 1565-1588, 2010; in David Greenaway (ed.), The World Economy: Global Trade Policy 2010, 2011, Wiley-Blackwell, 223-246; and in Bagwell, Kyle W. and Petros C. Mavroidis (eds), Preferential Trade Agreements: Law, Policy, and Economics, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
“Climate Change and the WTO: Legal Issues Concerning Border Tax Adjustments”,Japanese Yearbook of International Law53, 2010, 19-40. (With Petros C. Mavroidis) (Longer version).
"Border Carbon Adjustments from a Trade Policy Perspective”, ENTWINED Issue Brief, 2010. (With Carolyn Fischer).
"The Burden of Proof in Trade Disputes in the WTO: Legal aspects”, European Energy and Environmental Law Review 18(2), 2009. (With Petros C. Mavroidis).
"Non-Discrimination”, forthcoming in K. Reinert and R. Rajan (eds), Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, Princeton University Press, 2009. (With Petros C. Mavroidis).
"Winners and Losers in the Panel Stage of the WTO Dispute Settlement System”. In J. Trachtman (ed.) Developing Countries in the WTO Legal System, 2009. (With Hoekman, B. and P. C. Mavroidis).
"The Permissible Reach of National Environmental Policies”, Journal of World Trade 42:6, December 2008. (With Petros C. Mavroidis).
"Trading Profiles and Developing Country Participation in the WTO Dispute Settlement System”, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development Issue Paper No. 6, December 2008. (With Joseph Francois and Niklas Kaunitz).

IFN Newsletter

Virtues and Vices of International Investment Agreements. IFN Newsletter 02-2017. (With Thomas Tangerås)

Henrik Horn

Contact

Ph : +46 8 665 4540
henrik.horn@ifn.se

Introduction

Henrik Horn became Doctor of Economics at Stockholm School of Economics 1983. He spent about 25 years at the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University (SU), he worked for four years at WTO in Geneva, and has served as a judge in Marknadsdomstolen (the Swedish supreme court for e.g. competition law). Henrik Horn is Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Bruegel, a Brussels-based think tank, former Co-Chief Reporter for the American Law Institute project Legal and Economic Legal and Economic Principles of World Trade Law. He is Research Fellow in the International Trade and Industrial Organization Programmes of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, and an Editorial Board member of the World Trade Review and Journal of World Trade. Henrik Horn has taught courses from introductory level to advanced graduate level at e.g Stockholm University, Stockholm School of Economics, the University of Michigan, Princeton University, the World Trade Institute (Bern), and the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva).

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