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Are Services Sick? How Going Digital Can Cure Services Performance
Services make up the lion share of modern developed economies. But their productivity developments have often been lagging. In this study, we investigate first whether increased digitalisation can actually improve productivity developments in the services sector and conclude that indeed it has strong effects. In a second step, we look into the factors driving digitalisation in the services sector. As a rule, the more competitive a sector is, the more likely it is to adopt digital technologies to improve its productivity.
Exploring international data governance
The digital economy is facing two divergent trends. Information is moving across borders at record volumes, yet domestic restrictions on these flows are also on the rise. Privacy, security, law enforcement access, among others, are all important policy concerns that governments today seek to protect. Restrictive data policies, however, may not be the optimal solution. This paper provides insights, developed through expert inputs, on domestic good practices as well as trade policy tools that can help balance facilitating cross-border data flows while protecting other goals. A key step will involve building confidence between nations that allowing data to flow abroad will not subvert other policy priorities.
Kabotage-Gesetze: Über den Versuch Emmanuel Macrons, Mittel- und Osteuropäer aus dem Europäischen Binnenmarkt zu drängen
Matthias Bauer writes (in German) about the negative implications of restrictions of cabotage in EU freight transport.
EU och OECD är fel ute om bolagsskatten
Matthias Bauer's research on corporate taxation discussed in Dagens industri, Swedens leading business newspaper.
INSIGHT: Taxing the Digital Economy—Pillar One Is Not BEPS 2 (Part I)
Matthias Bauer's research discussed by Bloomberg Tax.
Plastik-, CO2- und Digitalsteuer EU-Eigenmittel und ihre Stolpersteine
Matthias Bauer's research discussed by ORF, Austria.
Should Unfairness be Maintained in Corporate Taxation? The Disguise of the Tax Incidence in EU and OECD Corporate Tax Planning
This study is meant to address the failure of governments and international institutions (e.g. the EU, OECD and IMF) to account for the distributional consequences of tax policies. The focus of this study is on the “incidence” of corporate taxes, i.e. the financial burden corporate taxes cause for individual citizens in their capacity as workers, consumers, entrepreneurs and investors.
The US proprietary usage of the dollar financial infrastructures is here to stay. What then for the Euro and the RMB: appeasing, circumventing, or doubling down?
Miriam L. Campanella presentation for the 2019 Shanghai Symposium on Global Finance "The Paradigm Shifts In Global Finance"
Digital Restrictiveness and its Economic Impacts
Erik van der Marel presents in the EUI World Trade Forum 2019 in Bern
NGO Lobbying on Trade and Investment: Accountability and Transparency at the EU Level
Matthias Bauer writes about Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) impact EU policymaking in trade and investment policy.