Regulatory coherence: an empirical approach

监管一致性：实证方法

• 批准号: 2886509
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Sussex
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2886509
• 关键词: Regulatory; coherence; empirical; approach

Research project on regulatory coherence in Free Trade Agreements. The researcher will undertake qualitative research on the implementation of FTA chapters addressing regulatory coherence, focusing on the EU-Japan EPA, CPTPP, CETA and USMCA. These chapters establish obligations to discuss strategies for bridging the gap between the Parties' regulations. They have been characterised in academic literature as a force for overcoming regulatory barriers and a means for the US and EU to consolidate global influence through influencing other countries' regulatory processes, but very little empirical research has been undertaken to test these hypotheses.In both cases, the PhD research will draw from desk-based analysis of FTA regulatory coherence/cooperation texts as well as publicly-available reports from meetings of relevant FTA committees, academic articles, OECD literature on regulatory cooperation, reports by international organisations. It will also encompass qualitative interviews with government officials and regulators, business representatives and civil society stakeholders, drawing from the extensive contacts of the supervisors. The PhD research will help to shed light on the project's core research aims: assessing the impact and utilisation of these chapters in practice, the effectiveness with which they achieve their stated aims, and the extent to which they suppress and/or magnify particular stakeholder influence.

自由贸易协定监管一致性研究项目。研究人员将对涉及监管一致性的 FTA 章节的实施情况进行定性研究，重点关注欧盟-日本 EPA、CPTPP、CETA 和 USMCA。这些章节规定了讨论缩小缔约方法规之间差距的策略的义务。在学术文献中，它们被描述为克服监管障碍的力量，以及美国和欧盟通过影响其他国家的监管过程来巩固全球影响力的手段，但很少有实证研究来检验这些假设。博士研究将借鉴自由贸易协定监管一致性/合作文本的案头分析以及相关自由贸易协定委员会会议的公开报告、学术文章、经合组织关于监管合作的文献、国际组织的报告。它还将根据监管者的广泛联系，对政府官员和监管机构、企业代表和民间社会利益相关者进行定性访谈。博士研究将有助于阐明该项目的核心研究目标：评估这些章节在实践中的影响和利用、它们实现既定目标的有效性，以及它们抑制和/或放大特定利益相关者影响力的程度。