On May 25, 2016, the Commission proposed to amend two dozen articles of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (hereafter the “Directive”). One...

The TTIP negotiation is taking another leap of faith as it delves into the question of public procurement this week. The topic is inarguably a...

By Sherman E. Katz, Senior Advisor at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and...

Professor Bernard Hoekman is the Robert Schuman Chair and Director of the Global Economics programme at the European University Institute. Joakim...

Investment in brands drives the allocation of resources in our economy. It increases competition, pushes firms to innovate, and decreases asymmetries...

American comedian Groucho Marx was no watcher of trade policy. Although dating from the 1930s, a modern-day trade policy cynic or realist (depending...

Matthias Bauer and Hosuk Lee-Makiyama comment on Germany’s new guidelines for government procurement of digital services. In this paper, the...

Pascal Lamy, the former Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), argued in his Jan Tumlir Lecture that we are moving from an old to a...

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...

Pascal Lamy is a former Director-General of the World Trade...