Peter Holmes
Emeritus Reader (Economics)

Research

He is a specialist in European Economic Integration and other global public policy issues, including the EU's relations with the WTO. He is interested in the relationship among the complex of policies on trade, competition, regulation, and technology; he has collaborated with lawyers and political scientists. He has written reports for the European Commission and the World Bank. He works with the Sussex European Institute and is an Associate Fellow of the Science Policy Research Unit. Recent work covers: EU anti-dumping policy; trade and competition negotiations and dispute settlement at the WTO; the patentability of software; EU enlargement; Regionalism and the world trading system.

He has recently worked with governments in Africa and South Asia on regional intregration issues.

Holmes, Peter, Reilly, T and Rollo, Jim (2011) Border carbon adjustments and the potential for protectionism. Climate Policy, 11 (2). pp. 883-900. ISSN 1469-3062

Dawar, Kamala and Holmes, Peter (2011) Competition Policy. In: Preferential Trade Agreement Policies for Development: A Handbook. World Bank. ISBN 978-0-8213-8643-9

Gasiorek, Michael and Holmes, Peter (2010) Globalisation and Deep Integration. In: International Business and Management; Product Market Integration: A Multifaceted Approach. International Business and Management , 26 . Emerald, pp. 139-156. ISBN 9781849509862

Gasiorek, Michael and Holmes, Peter (2010) Globalisation and Deep Integration. In: Product Market Integration: A Multifaceted Approach. International Business and Management, 26 . Emerald Group Publishing, pp. 139-156. ISBN 9781849509862

Quaglia, Lucia, Eastwood, Robert and Holmes, Peter (2009) The Financial Turmoil and EU Policy Co-operation in 2008. Journal of Common Market Studies, 47 (9). pp. 63-87. ISSN 0021-9886

Holmes, Peter and Dawar, Kamala (2009) Negotiation or Litigation? The Curiously Evolving Governance of the WTO. In: The Law And Economics Of Globalisation: New Challenges for a World in flux. Edward Elgar, pp. 93-117. ISBN ISBN- 978-1-84542

Winters, L Alan, Gasiorek, Michael, López González, Javier, Holmes, Peter, Méndez Parra, Maximiliano, Rollo, Jim and Shingal, Anirudh (2009) Innocent bystanders: implications of an EU-India free trade agreement for excluded countries. Commonwealth Secretariat. ISBN 9780850928952