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Globalization Isn’t in Decline: It’s Changing
Globalization isn’t in decline; it is simply changing. Although the COVID-19 crisis has seen a dramatic decline in goods trade, investments and the...
Shifting into Digital Services: Does a Crisis Matter and for Who?
How do trade patterns change after an external shock such as an economic crisis, and is this shift structural? This paper uses a...
Patterns of Trade Restrictiveness in Online Platforms: A First Look
This paper develops a digital platform restrictiveness index for 64 countries based on ECIPE’s Digital Trade Estimates (DTE) database and the...
Do Data Policy Restrictions Inhibit Trade in Services?
This paper examines whether restrictive data policies impact trade in services over the internet. We have collected comparable information on a...
Do Data Policy Restrictions Impact the Productivity Performance of Firms and Industries?
This paper examines how policies regulating the cross-border movement and domestic use of electronic data on the internet impact the productivity of...
The Economic Impact of Local Content Requirements: A Case Study of Heavy Vehicles
The use of local content requirements (LCRs) has been growing for a long time. Used by developed as well as developing countries, they aim to promote...
Reforming Services: What Policies Warrant Attention?
Economic growth in the European Union has been low for more than a decade now. While some of the poor performance can be explained by the crisis, the...
Unleashing Internal Data Flows in the EU: An Economic Assessment of Data Localisation Measures in the EU Member States
Forced data localisation measures are on the rise around the world, fragmenting the Internet and increasing costs for businesses and...
Why Concluding CETA is so Important for the EU
Passions have been running high this week as the EU failed to get an agreement about signing off its trade deal with Canada, what is called CETA. As...
Digital Investments, Data and Growth in Europe: A Framework for Analysis
Even if there is a connection between information and communication technology (ICT) and growth in the European economy has been understood, specific...