Richard Mason, Author at IREF Europe Independent research and policy analysis on fiscal, monetary, and regulatory issues in Europe Sun, 09 Jan 2022 21:36:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://en.irefeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/04/IREF-LinkedIn-Profile-DarkBlue-scaled.png Richard Mason, Author at IREF Europe 32 32 Will Scotland’s Price Floor do more Harm than Good? https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/will-scotland-s-price-floor-do-more-harm-than-good/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=will-scotland-s-price-floor-do-more-harm-than-good https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/will-scotland-s-price-floor-do-more-harm-than-good/#respond Wed, 06 Jun 2018 23:36:43 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article-will-scotland-s-price-floor-do-more-harm-than-good/ Scotland has recently imposed a price-floor on all alcoholic products, requiring retailers to charge at least £0.50 per unit (equal to 8g of pure alcohol, according to the UK government).…

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/will-scotland-s-price-floor-do-more-harm-than-good/feed/ 0 The Cost of Regulatory Divergence on the Pharmaceutical Market https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/the-cost-of-regulatory-divergence-on-the-pharmaceutical-market/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-cost-of-regulatory-divergence-on-the-pharmaceutical-market https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/the-cost-of-regulatory-divergence-on-the-pharmaceutical-market/#respond Wed, 25 Apr 2018 15:46:31 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article-the-cost-of-regulatory-divergence-on-the-pharmaceutical-market/ Since the introduction of the Pharmaceutical Tariff Elimination Agreement in the early 2000’s, the trade of pharmaceutical goods between the EU and US has been conducted mostly without the hindrance…

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