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Deepening NAFTA and Signing New Trade Agreements: A US Trade Strategy to Boost the Economy and Reduce the Trade Deficit
President Trump assumed office with one of the more purposeful trade agendas in modern history: he pulled the US out of the Trans-Pacific...
New Coalitions for Europe’s Digital Future – Building Capacity, Improving Performance
In Europe’s digital policy, digital managerialists, digital frontrunners, and digital convergers have emerged as coalitions among EU member states....
Standard Essential Patents and the Quest for Faster Diffusion of Technology
Standard-essential patents (SEPs) have been critical to the ICT revolution. SEPs have allowed for the fast rates of innovation diffusion that the...
Embracing Innovation and Economic Development: A Policy Perspective for the Asia-Pacific Region
Great Opportunities for Asia-Pacific Economies to Prosper through the Digital Economy — The Asia-Pacific region has great opportunities to...
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...