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Europe’s Obesity Challenge
Europe is confronted by an obesity challenge. Rates of obesity have climbed fast over the past decades and estimates suggest that obesity rates will...
Europe in the Trumpworld: EU Trade and Security Under the New US Executive
The election of Trump into the Oval Office is much of a non-event for EU trade-policy detail, possibly even the TTIP: they have been deteriorating...
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....
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...
What is Wrong with the Single Market?
Europe’s Single Market is in many ways an illusion – it exists only nominally. There are substantial barriers to cross-border exchange and the...
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...
Intellectual Property Rights: Getting Priorities Right
This 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...
“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...
The “Google Case” and the Promotion of Europe’s Digital Economy
That the European Commission this week threw down the gauntlet to Google in its long-running competition investigation hardly came as a...