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Building Value: The Role of Trademarks for Economic Development
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Innovation, IP, and Human Capital North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonInvestment in brands drives the allocation of resources in our economy. It increases competition, pushes firms to innovate, and decreases asymmetries...
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“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
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Stuart HarbinsonAmerican comedian Groucho Marx was no watcher of trade policy. Although dating from the 1930s, a modern-day trade policy cynic or realist (depending...
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A Digital Strategy for Europe
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Bruno Maçãesby Dr Bruno Macaes, Secretary of State for European Affairs, Government of Portugal The industrial internet – the network of intelligent...
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The Bundes Cloud: Germany on the Edge to Discriminate Against Foreign Suppliers of Digital Services
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: cloud services data localisation digital economy digital services Digital Single Market Germany governance public procurementMatthias Bauer and Hosuk Lee-Makiyama comment on Germany’s new guidelines for government procurement of digital services. In this paper, the...
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Regulatory Protection in the New World of Trade: When is it Legitimate?
By: Hanna DeringerPascal 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...
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“The Logic of Zero”: Boosting SMEs Trade in TTIP
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has several novelties. One is that it will include, for the first time in a free...
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New Zealand: The EU’s Asia-Pacific Partnership and the Case for a Next Generation FTA
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityGiven the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and several intra-Asian agreements, the EU is focused on large-sized free trade agreements (FTAs) to avoid...
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Disentangling the Flows of Data: Inside or Outside the Multinational Company?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging TechnologiesThis article aims to investigate the patterns of flows in data around the world. It does so by starting from the proposition that data are used as...
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Data Localisation in Russia: A Self-imposed Sanction
Cross-border data flows are an integral mechanism of today’s economy, impacting a country’s competitiveness and growth. All economic sectors...
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Intellectual Property Rights: Getting Priorities Right
Tags: intellectual propertyBy: Fredrik ErixonThis paper stands in the nexus of trade policy and IPRs – and it aims to provide a different economic foundation for IPR policies by discussing how...
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The New World of Trade
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Pascal LamyPascal Lamy is a former Director-General of the World Trade...
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Europe and the Eurozone: No Vision, No Strategy?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceBy: Matthias BauerThe rise of populist parties across Europe is a severe threat to European integration. Irrespective of their underlying political ideologies,...