Industrial and Competitiveness Policy
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Between Technological Advancement and Protectionism: The Bumpy Evolution from MP3 Players to Smartphones in Korea
By: Jimmyn ParcIn recent years, K-pop or Korean popular songs have enjoyed immense popularity around the world. However, the situation was very different before the...
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Accumulated and Accumulable Cultures: The Case of Public and Private Initiatives toward K-Pop
When it comes to the promotion of culture, many tend to highlight the vital role of public initiatives. This idea is based on the common perception...
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Assessing the Impact of Protectionism upon the Performance of Actors: The Case of the French and Korean Film Industries
The film industry has received increasing attention due to social, cultural, and economic reasons. Consequently, many countries have...
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The Cost of Fiscal Unilateralism: Potential Retaliation Against the EU Digital Services Tax (DST)
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyThe EU is proposing a digital services tax (DST) to tax certain so-called ‘digital companies’, which it alleges access the Single Market while...
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Online Platforms, Economic Integration and Europe’s Rent-Seeking Society: Why Online Platforms Deliver on What EU Governments Fail to Achieve
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Matthias BauerOnline platforms create “more perfect” markets. Online platforms are a market-driven cure to the imperfections of the EU’s incomplete Single...
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Cooperation in Europe’s Digital Economy: How do Countries Position Themselves?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyMembers of the European Union have different positions on matters of digital openness, and those differences typically reflect how the digital sector...
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Do Data Policy Restrictions Inhibit Trade in Services?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Digital Trade Estimates Project EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThis paper examines whether restrictive data policies impact trade in services over the internet. We have collected comparable information on a...
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Do Data Policy Restrictions Impact the Productivity Performance of Firms and Industries?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Digital Trade Estimates Project Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyThis paper examines how policies regulating the cross-border movement and domestic use of electronic data on the internet impact the productivity of...
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In Search of an Effective Trade Policy for the Film Industry: Lessons from Korea
This article explores which trade-related policies are effective – that is both economically and culturally sound – to promote the film...
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Five Questions about the Digital Services Tax to Pierre Moscovici
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Matthias BauerThe European Commission has recently proposed to upend decades of international tax cooperation and introduce a new three percent tax on corporate...
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Evaluating the Effects of Protectionism on the Film Industry: A Case Study Analysis of Korea
Research Areas: Far East Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Korea Project Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Jimmyn ParcThis chapter assesses whether Korean film policies have been instrumental for the success of the Korean film industry . The major finding of this...
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Wrestling with or Embracing Digitization in the Music Industry: The Contrasting Business Strategies of J-pop and K-pop
By: Jimmyn ParcDigitization has significantly changed the process for producing and consuming music: from analogue to digital, albums to songs, possess to...