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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...
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...
The Secret to the Success of K-pop: The Benefits of Well-Balanced Copyrights
Today’s mantra in many political and business circles is that stringent copyrights are needed for fostering cultural creativity and that...
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...
Who Reforms for Higher Productivity?
With weak European growth performance over a longer period of time, it is time to push reforms raising the rate of productivity growth. The EU’s...
The French Audiovisual Policy: An evaluation
The two last years have witnessed a hot debate in France on whether the current French audiovisual policy has had a positive or a negative...
La politique audiovisuelle française : A bout de souffle
Ces deux dernières années, la France a connu un vif débat sur l’impact de la politique audiovisuelle actuelle sur le rayonnement de la...
The Effect of Screen Quotas and Subsidy Regime on Cultural Industry: A Case Study of French and Korean Film Industries
There are voices in France advocating for a Korean-type screen quota system, seen as a key ingredient in Korean films’ success, and voices...