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Competition, Growth and Regulatory Heterogeneity in Europe’s Digital Economy
Far too many policymakers in Europe have a confused vision about the policy conditions required for Europe to grow its digital economy. Their habits...
Who Reforms for Higher Productivity?
With weak European growth performance over a longer period of time, it is time to push reforms raising the rate of productivity growth. The EU’s...
What is Wrong with the Single Market?
Europe’s Single Market is in many ways an illusion – it exists only nominally. There are substantial barriers to cross-border exchange and the...
The Bundes Cloud: Germany on the Edge to Discriminate Against Foreign Suppliers of Digital Services
Matthias Bauer and Hosuk Lee-Makiyama comment on Germany’s new guidelines for government procurement of digital services. In this paper, the...
The “Google Case” and the Promotion of Europe’s Digital Economy
That the European Commission this week threw down the gauntlet to Google in its long-running competition investigation hardly came as a...
Positioning on the Global Value Chain Map: Where do You Want to Be?
*Senior Economics at ECIPE in Brussels (erik.vandermarel@ecipe.org). The author wishes to thank Maria Salfi for excellent research...
“Rethink and Reset”: Time to Get Rid of The Stability and Growth Pact?
Christine Lagarde, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, recently asked for a “rethink and reset” of the numerical ceilings...
Les Fonds Souverains de Brevets (FSB) :Un nouvel instrument de défense commerciale?
La prolifération des fonds souverains de brevets (FSB) fait peu débat alors même qu’il existe une demande croissante en faveur de règles, au...
Sovereign Patent Funds (SPFs): Next-generation Trade Defence?
While there is an increasing demand for a discipline in the next generation FTAs that restricts SOEs in international trade, there is less debate on...
OECD BEPS: Reconciling Global Trade, Taxation Principles and the Digital Economy
Following media reports on the low tax rates paid by some of the world’s largest multinationals, international tax reform has moved to the top of...