European Union's Foreign Economic Policies

<p>The European Union is a key actor in international economic governance. Through its foreign economic policies it plays a central role in the negotiation of international trade agreements the global regulation of the financial services sector and the provision of aid to developing countries. This book shows how principal-agent theory can be used to shed new light on this complex of policy areas. In particular the contributions to this volume analyze delegation control and agent strategies in a variety of principal-agent relationships shaping the EU’s foreign economic policies: mainly those involving interest groups and governments; governments and the European Commission; and the European Union and international organizations.</p><p>The chapters written by leading experts in the field offer empirically-rich studies of various areas of the EU’s external economic relations including trade financial regulation accounting standards and global regulation through the G7/G8. The book is aimed at researchers and advanced students interested in the EU international economic relations and principal-agent theory.</p><p>This book was published as a special issue of the <em>Journal of European Public Policy</em>.</p>