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Manufacturing Discontent: The Rise to Power of Anti-TTIP Groups
Old beliefs, new symbols, new faces. In 2013, a small group of German green and left- wing activists, professional campaign NGOs and...
The EU’s Trade with Emerging Markets: Climbing the Value-added Chain and Growing IP Intensity?
International trade is a powerful force of societal transformation. Trade agreements not only stimulated trade; they have improved the quality and...
Competition, Growth and Regulatory Heterogeneity in Europe’s Digital Economy
Far too many policymakers in Europe have a confused vision about the policy conditions required for Europe to grow its digital economy. Their habits...
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...
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...
Europe and the Eurozone: No Vision, No Strategy?
The rise of populist parties across Europe is a severe threat to European integration. Irrespective of their underlying political ideologies,...
“Splendid Isolation” as Trade Policy: Mercantilism and Crude Keynesianism in “the Capaldo Study” of TTIP
A recent study by Capaldo suggests that TTIP would have seriously negative consequences for trade, growth, income and employment in Europe. It has...
“Rethink and Reset”: Time to Get Rid of The Stability and Growth Pact?
Christine Lagarde, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, recently asked for a “rethink and reset” of the numerical ceilings...
TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP: A Challenge to Europe
What if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is not a doomed initiative – and what if it will actually make inroads into modern trade problems? The...
The ECB’s Ad hoc Monetary Policy: Will its Lack of Forward Guidance Finally Burst the Eurozone?
Most experts agree that central banks need to provide "forward guidance" for monetary policy to be effective. But exactly what forward guidance is...