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The Role of Trade Policy in Promoting Sustainable Agriculture
There is now a long history of countries improving sustainability standards in most parts of the economy while at the same time pursuing the...
Standing Up for Competition: Market Concentration, Regulation, and Europe’s Quest for a New Industrial Policy
After the failed merger of Alstom and Siemens – the two giants of Europe´s railway manufacturing sector – the French and the German governments...
Sweden, UK and the EU: Managing post-Brexit Relations and Defining a new Agenda for European Competitiveness
There is an urgent need to move on from the shock of the UK’s vote to leave the European Union, and all the melodrama in the past two years over...
Online Platforms, Economic Integration and Europe’s Rent-Seeking Society: Why Online Platforms Deliver on What EU Governments Fail to Achieve
Online platforms create “more perfect” markets. Online platforms are a market-driven cure to the imperfections of the EU’s incomplete Single...
The Next Steps for the Digital Single Market: From Where do We Start?
Digitization has been a boon to the European economy. However, the Digital Single Market remains an aspiration rather than a reality, and European...
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...
Unintended and Unattended Consequences: The Opportunity Costs of Reducing Exclusivity Rights for Intellectual Property
The European Commission is reviewing the use of supplementary protection certificates (SPCs), a patent term extension motivated by the increasing...
New Coalitions for Europe’s Digital Future – Building Capacity, Improving Performance
In Europe’s digital policy, digital managerialists, digital frontrunners, and digital convergers have emerged as coalitions among EU member states....
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 consumers....
Turning the Single Digital Market into a House of Cards? The European Local Content Quota on Netflix
On May 25, 2016, the Commission proposed to amend two dozen articles of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (hereafter the “Directive”). One...