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The Death of the Centre in European Politics
Fredrik Erixon in a Spectator cover story that populism is about to become the ruling norm in Europe
Digital Innovation in East Asia: Do Restrictive Data Policies Matter?
Erik van der Marel and Martina Ferracane publish a World Bank Policy Research Working Paper using the DTRI and assess its impact on digital innovation.
Digital Platforms & Digital Trade Restrictions
Erik van der Marel holds a Brown Bag Lunch seminar at the World Bank explaining the economic impacts of digital trade restrictions.
Data Restrictiveness and Economic Impacts
Erik van der Marel holds a presentation at the Korea-US Policy Dialogue on digital trade restrictiveness and its impact on trade, productivity and innovation.
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.