Erik van der Marel
Email: erik.vandermarel@ecipe.org
Office: +32 (0) 2 289 1350 Mobile: +32 (0) 499 053 104
Areas of Expertise: EU Trade Agreements Services Digital Economy WTO and Globalization Russia & Eurasia

Erik van der Marel is a Chief Economist at ECIPE, Associate Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and Consultant Economist at the World Bank. His areas of expertise are in digital trade, services trade, cross-border data flows, and their associated digital services trade policy.
Prior to his appointment at ECIPE, Erik was a full-time lecturing at the London School of Economics (LSE) where he taught international trade at post-graduate level. In the past, Erik also gained various professional experience as a consultant at the, OECD, APEC, ADBI, and the World Bank Trade Research Department. Erik received his PhD in economics from Sciences-Po Paris and did his post-doctorate at the LSE, too.
Erik has published peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, working papers and reports, and made contributions to ECIPE, the World Bank, and ADBI on digital trade and services, domestic regulations in digital services trade and data flows. He has also provided various capacity building courses for policy makers at National Ministries and taught at the European University Institute (EUI) and World Trade Institute (WTI).
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ECIPE Policy Briefs
The Economic Dividend of Competitiveness
In a world of technological and economic rivalry, the EU must devote increased attention to its competitiveness. Higher levels of competitiveness will help the EU build a more prosperous economy which will in turn produce innovation and resources to address the great challenges of our time. ECIPE published a study presenting a competitiveness compass with concrete policy recommendations that will improve EU’s competitiveness. These policy...
ECIPE Occasional Papers
A Compass to Guide EU Policy in Support of Business Competitiveness
The EU agenda for improving competitiveness is missing in action. Economic competitiveness has been a central plank in the development of the European Union – a relentless quest for policies that lead to more prosperity and that make European companies in world markets more successful. However, since the end of the Lisbon Agenda in 2010, economic competitiveness seems to have fallen off the EU map. This Agenda had its flaws, but it rightly sought to make Europe...
ECIPE Occasional Papers
Leadership in European Digital Policy: Future Role and Direction for the D9+ Group
In this paper, we will discuss how Europe makes digital policy and how its digital economic performance can be improved. The focus is on the D9+ initiative. Launched in 2016 on the initiative of former Swedish trade minister, Ann Linde, nine countries with a particular interest in matters of the digital economy met to learn from each other and seek common ground on policy issues. On occasions, the D9+ Group has issued joint statements relating to regulatory...
ECIPE Occasional Papers
After the DMA, the DSA and the New AI Regulation: Mapping the Economic Consequences of and Responses to New Digital Regulations in Europe
The European Union (EU) has pursued an ambitious agenda for regulating the digital economy, and it is now planning to establish a new package of regulations, including the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the Digital Services Act (DSA), and a new regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI). These regulations build on an already established structure of digital and business regulations in Europe that is comparatively restrictive but that varies substantially between EU...
Media Mention
DTRI used in WTO’s 2020 World Trade Report on “Government policies to promote innovation in the digital age”
ECIPE's DTRI used in the analysis for the WTO World Trade Report...
Media Mention
DTRI mentioned in Pakistan’s Business Recorder
The DTRI mentioned as part of a World Bank report in Pakistan's Business...
Media Mention
Global Digital Trade 1: Market Opportunities and Key Foreign Trade Restrictions
Digital Trade Estimates Project Database used in USITC...
Media Mention
Digital technology diffusion: A matter of capabilities, incentives or both?
Digital Trade Restrictiveness Index used in OECD...
Article
A European industrial policy for services: the Single Market
Philipp Lamprecht, Erik van der Marel & Oscar Guinea write about Industrial Policy for...
Article
Productive services with the help of internet technologies
Erik van der Marel writes about productive services with the help of internet technologies on the ADBI's...
Article
The Cost of Data Protectionism
Erik van der Marel and Martina Ferracane write on...
Article
Data localisation in the EU: the threat from inside
Erik van der Marel opines in E-sharp on data localization measures and where to go from...
Book or Paper
Shifting into Digital Services: Does a Financial Crisis Matter and for Who?
ECIPE Working Paper now published in the World Trade...
Book or Paper
The economic costs of restricting the cross-border flow of data
In a joint Kearney-ECIPE study, Dr Matthias Bauer and Dr Erik van der Marel analyse the economic impacts of restrictions on the free flow of data...
Book or Paper
Digital-based Services Globalization and Multilateral Trade Cooperation
The chapter written in the CEPR e-book "Revitalising multilateralism" has now found its way in the Global Policy....
Book or Paper
Regulating personal data: Linking different models to digital services trade
Erik van der Marel and Martina Ferracane write for...
Speech or Presentation
Understanding the development impact of digital services trade
Erik van der Marel presents at the UNCTAD e-Commerce week in a panel together with GIZ and the World...
Speech or Presentation
The CPTPP and UK’s accession: What global implications? Case of services
Erik van der Marel comments on the economic rationales for the UK in joining...
Speech or Presentation
Data and Services Trade: Regulatory Options for a New Globalization
Erik van der Marel presents on data and new globalization, including the regulatory options, for IIFT Economics...
Speech or Presentation
To Adequate or Not to Adequate? What are the Trade Effects?
Erik van der Marel presents on adequacy and digital services trade at the World Trade...