Oscar du Roy
Email: oscar.duroy@ecipe.org
Office: +32 (0)2 289 1350
Areas of Expertise: European Union Services Digital Economy
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Oscar is a Junior Economist at ECIPE and is from Belgium. He holds a MSc in economics from Barcelona School of Economics (2022) and a MSc in economic analysis and European policy from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (2020) with honours. Between the two masters he was an assistant in the macroeconomic forecasting unit at the Belgian Federal Planning Bureau and subsequently held a position of research assistant for Dr. Mirabelle Muuls at Imperial College London. His research interests lie in digital trade, energy economics, and competition policy.
ECIPE Occasional Papers
Future-proofing the EU’s Investment Attractiveness: A Bold Reform Agenda for Competition Enforcement, Taxation and Digital Policy
Reducing the deterrent effects from EU and Member State laws in three key cross-sector policy areas – competition policy, business taxes and VAT, and digital policies – could significantly enhance the business environment within the Single Market and boost the EU’s attractiveness to both domestic and foreign investors. The EU's future competitiveness is at risk due to a significant disparity in investments, particularly in technological innovation,...
ECIPE Policy Briefs
Keeping Up with the US: Why Europe’s Productivity Is Falling Behind
The European Union stands at a crossroads. For decades, the EU’s productivity growth has consistently lagged the United States, leading to slower growth in living standards and decline in global economic power. While short-term factors like the strong US fiscal expansion have widened the gap in nominal GDP growth in recent years, the fact is that Europe has trailed the US economic development for several decades and the root of the problem lies in deeper...
ECIPE Policy Briefs
Trading Up: An EU Trade Policy for Better Market Access and Resilient Sourcing
Europe’s competitiveness could be substantially improved by a trade policy that facilitates more trade and other forms of cross-border exchange. The evidence is clear: the EU trades less with the rest of the world than would be expected given the size of its economy. With 85 percent of global growth happening outside of the EU – and with an increasing share of all new technologies, innovations, patents, human capital, and R&D expenditure emerging in other...
ECIPE Policy Briefs
Openness as Strength: The Win-Win in EU-US Digital Services Trade
The discourse surrounding the EU’s supposed over-reliance on digital services imports from non-EU countries, particularly the US, has been a recurrent topic among some political circles. However, this viewpoint tends to oversimplify and misrepresent the nuanced and complex reality of the EU’s status within the global Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector and digitally enabled trade. A thorough analysis of trade data and trends clearly...
Media Mention
European Council Think Tank Review – June 2024
Multiple ECIPE studies are featured in the Think Tank Review of June 2024 curated by the European...
Media Mention
Rich US Tourists Will Make Europeans Feel Poor
The study "Keeping Up with the US: Why Europe’s Productivity Is Falling Behind" by Fredrik Erixon, Oscar Guinea and Oscar du Roy is referenced in...
Media Mention
Europe’s ‘Trump Moment’? Weekend EU Elections Could See a Conservative Surge
The study "If the EU was a State in the United States: Comparing Economic Growth between EU and US States" by Fredrik Erixon, Oscar Guinea and Oscar...
Media Mention
Η μείωση των επιτοκίων από την ΕΚΤ δεν θα λύσει πρόβλημα της ευρωζώνης
The study "Keeping Up with the US: Why Europe’s Productivity Is Falling Behind" by Fredrik Erixon, Oscar Guinea and Oscar du Roy is referenced in...
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Book or Paper
Overcoming Barriers: How the EU Can Improve Trade Finance Access for Neighbouring Countries
Fourth paper crafted in collaboration with Bertelsmann Stiftung under the "Sovereign Europe: Strategic Management of Global Interdependence" project...
Book or Paper
The EU’s Productivity Performance: Falling Behind the Curve
Fredrik Erixon, Oscar Guinea and Oscar du Roy write an article for the EconPol Forum 03/2024 Journal from CESifo based on their study "Keeping Up...
Book or Paper
Beyond Barriers: Rethinking CAP to Enable Agricultural Export Diversity in the EU Neighbourhood
Third paper crafted in collaboration with Bertelsmann Stiftung under the "Sovereign Europe: Strategic Management of Global Interdependence" project...
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