Oscar du Roy
Email: oscar.duroy@ecipe.org
Office: +32 (0)2 289 1350
Areas of Expertise: European Union Services Digital Economy

Oscar is a Research Assistant 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 Policy Briefs
A Forward-Thinking Approach to Open Strategic Autonomy: Navigating EU Trade Dependencies and Risk Mitigation
For the EU, fostering economic interdependence is a more proactive and forward-thinking approach than resorting to defensive measures like eliminating alleged economic dependencies through restrictive regulations, as such actions would negatively impact Member States’ economies. The European Commission and some Member State governments keep pushing for “EU Open Strategic Autonomy”. Several EU laws have already been infused with the concept, resulting in a...
ECIPE Policy Briefs
Merger Policy, Competition and Innovation Leadership: Implications for the UK’s Investment Attractiveness
The UK’s competition regulator has adopted hard-sitting views in its assessment of transnational mergers and acquisitions. Since 2019, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has blocked a historic 59% of all mergers that were under investigation, which is double compared to the previous five years. With increased competence to set conduct requirements for large technology companies, aggressive enforcement by the CMA risks undermining Britain’s ambitions to...
ECIPE Policy Briefs
Online Platform Regulation and Investment Attractiveness: A Look at the EU, the UK and Impacts on Small Open Economies
Small trade- and investment-oriented economies like the United Kingdom (UK) should carefully consider whether to regulate online platform services based on presumptions rather than evidence that consumers are being harmed. Flimsily enforced platform regulation can have a chilling effect on investments in business expansion and innovation, particularly in technology-adopting industries. Several countries around the world are designing new competition policies...
ECIPE Policy Briefs
If the EU was a State in the United States: Comparing Economic Growth between EU and US States
This Policy Brief is a warning call about Europe’s poor economic growth and its consequences for prosperity. The long-term trend of Gross Domestic Product per capita is crucially important but not always easy to grasp. While it’s common to compare levels of growth between countries in a single year, the reality is that it is the long-term trend that matters. An economy that grows at 3 percent per year will double in 24 years but an economy that grows at 1...
Media Mention
Europeans Are Becoming Poorer. ‘Yes, We’re All Worse Off.’
ECIPE study comparing EU member states and US states GDP per capita quoted by the Wall Street...
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