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Korean Dramas and Films: Key Factors for Their International Competitiveness
The Korean wave, which is the popularity of Korean entertainment outside Korea, is a fairly new phenomenon. Encompassing Korean dramas,...
Progress in TPP on Abuses of State Capitalism
By Sherman E. Katz, Senior Advisor at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and...
The Importance of Complementary Policy for ICT in the EU
This paper analyses the importance of the ICT sector, and in particular the Software sector, for the European economy. It does so by looking into the...
Leveraging Trade for Development: An Agenda for the Nairobi WTO Ministerial
Professor Bernard Hoekman is the Robert Schuman Chair and Director of the Global Economics programme at the European University Institute. Joakim...
Building Value: The Role of Trademarks for Economic Development
Investment in brands drives the allocation of resources in our economy. It increases competition, pushes firms to innovate, and decreases asymmetries...
“Either he’s dead, or my watch has stopped”: The WTO’s Nairobi Ministerial Conference must be Clear About the Future of the Doha Round
American comedian Groucho Marx was no watcher of trade policy. Although dating from the 1930s, a modern-day trade policy cynic or realist (depending...
A Digital Strategy for Europe
by Dr Bruno Macaes, Secretary of State for European Affairs, Government of Portugal The industrial internet – the network of intelligent...
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...
Regulatory Protection in the New World of Trade: When is it Legitimate?
Pascal Lamy, the former Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), argued in his Jan Tumlir Lecture that we are moving from an old to a...
“The Logic of Zero”: Boosting SMEs Trade in TTIP
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has several novelties. One is that it will include, for the first time in a free...