Ciuriak Consulting is a professional business services firm based in Ottawa (Canada) and
active globally. We conduct economic and policy research and analysis and provide consulting
services to help clients and partners realize projects based on our proven ability to conceptualize, operationalize and deliver.
In our core areas of expertise of international trade, finance and development and financial
services regulatory policy, we provide:
• Quantitative trade modelling, including computable general equilibrium (CGE), computable partial equilibrium (CPE) and gravity model studies
• Policy analysis and advice, including economic analysis for anti-dumping and countervailing duty litigation.
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• Market potential studies, including assessment of market access impediments
• Capacity Development and Training in trade analysis, including quantitative methods
• Document development and Editorial support
We provide quantification solutions.
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Ciuriak Consulting is featured in the Financial Times
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New opinion piece on digital trade:
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Dan Ciuriak was the co-winner of the first prize in the McKinsey Global Institute MGI "Opportunity for Europe" Prize Essay competition on how to unlock growth in Europe. This initiative is a follow up to MGI's 2015 reportA window of opportunity for Europe". While the 2015 report focused on the what, the question posed by the MGI prize was: "how could a pro-growth reform programme be made deliverable by 2020, and appeal to electorates and decision makers alike at the national and European level?"
To mark the award, MGI has published a booklet on containing The winning entries and a summary of key themes addressed in the submissions, including verbatim highlights of 20 of the most striking ideas, can be accessed on MGI's website. The awards were announced on 12 October 2016 at the MGI/Friends of Europe dinner at the Egmont Palace in Brussels.
Dan's award-winning essay "Rebooting Europe" can also be accessed here ().
A New Name for Modern Trade Deals: Asset Value Protection Agreements
An alternative view of twenty-first-century economic partnership pacts.
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The Knowledge-based and Data-driven Economy: Quantifying the Impacts of Trade Agreements
Intellectual property (IP) and data constitute the essential capital stocks of the knowledge-based and data-driven economy. These intangible capital stocks are not, however, represented in the workhorse models used to assess the impact of international trade agreements. As a result, it is not possible — using conventional tools — to evaluate the impact of treaty obligations in respect of IP protection, e-commerce and data; foreign direct investment in the knowledge-based sectors; and competition. Read more...
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Brexit's Impact on Trade
This note discusses the scale of the risks to bilateral UK-EU trade under alternative scenarios for the UK leaving the Union, including a hard Brexit, a soft EFTA-like Brefta, and the scope for the foregone UK-EU trade to be made up through alternative agreements. It comments on the risks to cross-Channel value chains, and the implications for cumulative welfare losses of the dynamic path to an eventual new equilibrium.
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How America could spark an economic war with China
How America could spark an economic war with China. In the anarchical world of pure power politics, if the U.S. decides international trade rules no longer apply to it, would China conciliate or retaliate?
Macleans, 12 April 2017.
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How should a truly Global Britain seek to upgrade its trade relationships beyond the EU?
How should a truly Global Britain seek to upgrade its trade relationships beyond the EU? Ciuriak Consulting developed the gravity model analysis to support Open Europe’s analysis of trade options for the United Kingdom post-Brexit. Read more.
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Brexit: the Impact of a UK Exit from the EU Single Market
Ciuriak Consulting conducted the quantitative trade- and investment-related impact analysis for Open Europe’s comprehensive evaluation of an exit by the United Kingdom from the European Union single market. The study develops alternative scenarios regarding what would replace the current single-market relationship and weighs the costs of exit against the potential benefits available to the UK from liberalization against the rest of the world. Read more.
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Mega Regionals and Industrial Policy
Dan Ciuriak and Harsha Singh analyzed the implications of the regulatory framework for global commerce that is taking shape in the negotiation of the mega regional trade agreements.
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The Canada-Korea FTA
The Ciuriak Consulting team developed an analysis of the implications for Canada of the Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement in a recent
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Climate change and trade are colliding without agreed rules to sort out the problems at their intersection.
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Reindustrialization in North America: A Canadian Perspective
Three decades of supply side policy have hit the wall just as three decades of demand side policy hit the wall in the 1970s. The solution? Embrace the 60-40 world.
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How Small Open Economies Can Leverage the Trade in Ideas
The term “freedom to operate” (FTO) describes a situation where commercial activity can be undertaken without infringing on intellectual property rights held by other parties. In current practice, FTO is established through an opinion based on patent search that a course of action is non-infringing on third party intellectual property rights, through a cross-licensing agreement between parties holding patent portfolios that might trigger infringement depending on the precise nature of a prospective commercial undertaking, acquiring patent rights, or a similar but less costly stratagem of defensive publishing (which in theory prevents others from acquiring patents).
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The NAFTA Renegotiation: What if the US Walks Away?
The US request to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) opens up the possibility of the trade agreement lapsing. In "The NAFTA Renegotiation: What if the US Walks Away?" authors Dan Ciuriak, Lucy Ciuriak, Ali Dadkhah, and Jingliang Xiao evaluate what would happen if trade between Canada, the United States and Mexico reverted to the rules under the World Trade Organization.
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The Art of the Trade Deal: Quantifying the Benefits of A TPP Without the United States
The Trump administration’s swift exit from the TPP has clearly not killed the deal as the remaining signatories consider whether to move ahead without the United States. While the overall impact of the deal would be lower without the U.S., the 11 remaining countries are better off with a TPP11 than without any agreement at all -- and some economies, including Canada, Mexico and other TPP parties in the Americas, would be better off compared to the 12-member TPP.
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Aftershocks: Quantifying the Economic Impacts of a US Border Adjustment Tax
Aftershocks: Quantifying the Economic Impacts of a Us Border Adjustment Tax. Read more.
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Intellectual Property Proliferation: Strategic Roots and Strategic Responses
CiuriaIntellectual Property Proliferation: Strategic Roots and Strategic Responses. With China surging to the global lead in issuing patents, a strategic race is shaping up to enclose the knowledge commons. Read more.
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Province-Level Impacts of the Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement
Ciuriak Consulting associates contributed an article to the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada’s Asia Agenda on the impact of Canada’s trade agreements at the provincial level.
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Canola Market Impacts under the TPP
Ciuriak Consulting quantified what’s at stake for Canada’s canola sector in the TPP negotiations in a study for the Canola Council of Canada.
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Improving Market Access for Small Enterprise
Dan Ciuriak with coauthors Hanna Melin and Derk Bienen contributed an analysis of the design principles for the mega regional trade negotiations to facilitate SME utilization of these agreements. Published in the Brazilian edition of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development’s journal, Pontes.
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Canada’s Economic Diplomacy in China
Dan Ciuriak contributed an analysis of Canada’s economic diplomacy in China to the 2014/15 edition of the Canada-China Business Council’s Forum magazine.
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Economic diplomacy boosts exports – and quite significantly. This new study sheds light on the questions of where, why and how.
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