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Episode 66: Regional Economic Integration in the Asia-Pacific – A Model for Addressing 21st Century Trade Policy Issues? With Vangelis Vitalis
We live in the Pacific century! The centre of gravity for the world economy is inexorably moving towards the region. While there is strong regional economic dynamism, with many economies in the...
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National Insecurity: Transatlantic Distress over Market Concentration
This piece was co-authored with Robin Baker, a Research Associate at the London School of Economics. Tech market concentration is only an issue when you don’t have a horse in the race. At least,...
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Episode 63: International Taxation in Today’s Society with Mathieu Parenti
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...
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US Sanctions Against Chinese 5G: Inconsistencies and Paradoxical Outcomes
This piece was co-authored with Robin Baker, a Research Associate at the London School of Economics. US sanctions against Chinese 5G have been inconsistently applied for the supply of critical...
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Data Should be Part of the Discussions in Pittsburgh
Today in Pittsburgh, the newly created EU-US Trade and Tech Council (TCC) holds its first meeting. The stakes are high and according to the official TTC agenda, a new Transatlantic deal on data is...
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G7 and Tech Governance
What this week’s summitry means for tech policy The past week of summitry was preceded by President Biden's promise to re-engage and reset – or reel in – the oldest (but not necessarily the...
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Transatlantic Tech Policy Cooperation: Add Coordination on Government Aid to the List
By Carl Schonander, Tech Policy Executive, Global Digital Finance Americas Consultant, Former U.S. Diplomat Last month, Daniel S. Hamilton and Joseph Quinlan released their annual survey...
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Careless advocacy on 5G RAN
Author thanks Claudia Lozano for her research assistance Those who call for non-WTO compliant support for O-RAN are either indifferent or nescient about how our trade negotiators try to uphold a...
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Also-ran support for Open RAN
Once in a while, a topic that seems abstruse unexpectedly becomes a subject of broader public debate. When we published our paper on Open RAN, we thought only a handful telecom regulators would be...
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Blockchain for Trade: the next gold standard or the fool’s gold?
In the movie “Gold”, a small, struggling mining entrepreneur looking for gold goes from bankruptcy to a 6 billion dollar mining empire, and then bankruptcy again. Bear with me, there is a link...