Sci­ence

Ralph Ossa receives “ERC Consolidator Grant”

The European Research Council supports outstanding researchers who are in the middle of their research careers with its Consolidator Grants. Ralph Ossa was one of five UZH researchers to receive a grant of 1.4 million Euros for his project “Deep Integration Assessments”.

It deals with con­tro­ver­sial as­pects of mod­ern trade agree­ments: Af­ter decades of lib­er­al­iza­tion, tar­iffs have reached his­tor­i­cal­ly low lev­els, leav­ing lit­tle scope for fur­ther tar­iff cuts. There­fore, to­day’s trade agree­ments large­ly re­volve around non-tar­iff is­sues in or­der to achieve fur­ther eco­nom­ic in­te­gra­tion. His project ex­am­ines the most con­tro­ver­sial as­pects of such in­te­gra­tion agree­ments, name­ly in­vestor pro­tec­tion, reg­u­la­to­ry co­op­er­a­tion and pro­tec­tion of in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty rights.

The following two papers are written as part of the ERC Consolidator Grant

• Are Trade Agree­ments Good for You?

• Dis­putes in In­ter­na­tion­al In­vest­ment and Trade