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Financial Repression and the Debt Build-up in China: Is There a Way Out?
China’s old recipe book for economic success, based on market distorting policies, is hindering the process toward a market-driven economy and the...
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Turning the Single Digital Market into a House of Cards? The European Local Content Quota on Netflix
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Korea Project Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: audiovisual industry audiovisual policy cultural industries Digital Single Market EU European CommissionOn May 25, 2016, the Commission proposed to amend two dozen articles of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (hereafter the “Directive”). One...
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The UK Referendum – and the Future of the European Project
It is on the pocketbook issues that Britain’s Remain campaign has chosen to take its stand. For weeks, it has bombarded the public with warnings...
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Xi Jinping’s Long Road to Somewhere? China’s OBOR Initiative and how Europe Should Respond
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe true nature and purpose of China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative are subject to much speculation. The one certainty is that OBOR commands...
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Digital Investments, Data and Growth in Europe: A Framework for Analysis
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Five Freedoms ProjectEven if there is a connection between information and communication technology (ICT) and growth in the European economy has been understood, specific...
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Addressing the Regulatory Divergences in the Medical Devices Sector
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North AmericaTags: medical technologyMedical devices are not just simple commodities. They are the result of decades of research and development and scientific advancement, and...
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The Cost of Non-Schengen for the Single Market
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Five Freedoms Project Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Hanna DeringerA suspension of the Schengen Agreement would damage the European economy, in particular by undermining the European single market. And it would not...
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The Secret to the Success of K-pop: The Benefits of Well-Balanced Copyrights
Tags: competitiveness copyrights cultural creativity cultural industries K-pop music industry South KoreaToday’s mantra in many political and business circles is that stringent copyrights are needed for fostering cultural creativity and that...
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The EU’s Trade with Emerging Markets: Climbing the Value-added Chain and Growing IP Intensity?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: competitiveness EU Global Supply Chains global value chains technology trade trade in goods trade policyInternational trade is a powerful force of societal transformation. Trade agreements not only stimulated trade; they have improved the quality and...
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Competition, Growth and Regulatory Heterogeneity in Europe’s Digital Economy
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyFar too many policymakers in Europe have a confused vision about the policy conditions required for Europe to grow its digital economy. Their habits...
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Assessing the Solar Energy Dispute between the European Union and the People’s Republic of China
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Trade, Globalisation and SecuritySylvain Plasschaert is Honorary Professor at the University of Antwerp and at the Catholic University of...
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Who Reforms for Higher Productivity?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human CapitalWith 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...