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Tax havens, transfer pricing, digitalisation, what do these terms all mean and how are they related to one another? With the rise of multinational companies and their activities spreading all across...

While China has managed a fast economic recovery after the pandemic, Beijing has laid out plans for its future economic policies that signal an inward turn. For instance, the Fourteenth Five-year...

Few books have had such an influence as Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man from 1992: it profoundly shaped the way that many people in the West thought about the period that...

What ideas are now powering the European Union? For a long time, Europe and the European project confidently embodied the values of liberal universalism and cultural pluralism. That zeitgeist...

Trade and Technology are intimately connected. Cloud computing, Internet of Things, blockchain, 3D printing, remote sensors, artificial intelligence, big data, cybersecurity, telematics, robotics, or...

In this episode, Fredrik Erixon and Nicklas Berild Lundblad discuss the culture of freedom of speech online and how that culture gets strong impulses by governments that are pushing regulations that...

With its dynamic Internet economy and its mobile-first consumer culture, the Asia-Pacific region is now the most dynamic digital region in the world. But countries in the Asia-Pacific take different...

Globalisation isn’t dying, said Erik van der Marel in an important paper last year as everyone feared the Covid-19 crisis would throw us all into protectionism. Globalisation is changing – and...

Work to complete the Nord Stream 2 pipeline has now re-started, but there are still fundamental concerns about this energy project and its consequences for Europe. How will it impact gas supply in...

Digitalisation and the growth of new technologies give us many new opportunities to improve society – from boosting economic productivity to delivering better care in hospitals and nursing homes....