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Assessing the Impact of Protectionism upon the Performance of Actors: The Case of the French and Korean Film Industries
The film industry has received increasing attention due to social, cultural, and economic reasons. Consequently, many countries have...
5G and National Security: After Australia’s Telecom Sector Security Review
In August 2018, the government of Australia concluded its review of the national security risks of the telecom sector with the new 5G networks. The...
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...
Do Data Policy Restrictions Impact the Productivity Performance of Firms and Industries?
This paper examines how policies regulating the cross-border movement and domestic use of electronic data on the internet impact the productivity of...
In Search of an Effective Trade Policy for the Film Industry: Lessons from Korea
This article explores which trade-related policies are effective – that is both economically and culturally sound – to promote the film...
Wrestling with or Embracing Digitization in the Music Industry: The Contrasting Business Strategies of J-pop and K-pop
Digitization has significantly changed the process for producing and consuming music: from analogue to digital, albums to songs, possess to...
Reforming Services: What Policies Warrant Attention?
Economic growth in the European Union has been low for more than a decade now. While some of the poor performance can be explained by the crisis, the...
Innovation and the Economics of Healthcare: The Case of Blood Cancer
While innovation is central for the quality of healthcare and improving health outcomes, it is also a source of increasing costs for governments....
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...
Addressing the Regulatory Divergences in the Medical Devices Sector
Medical devices are not just simple commodities. They are the result of decades of research and development and scientific advancement, and...