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When the State Becomes the Only Buyer: Monopsony in China’s Public Procurement of Medical Technology
China’s centralised state procurement policies are moving the Chinese market of medical technologies in a monopsonistic direction. A monopsony...
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Has the Fairest Clauses of Us All? Stress-testing the Application of Mirror Clauses to Pesticides
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance EU-Mercosur Project Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Latin America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Emily ReesIn less than six months, ‘mirror clauses’ have taken EU trade policy by storm. To inject ‘reciprocity’ in trading terms, the French...
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The EU Digital Markets Act: Assessing the Quality of Regulation
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyThe proposed Digital Markets Act (DMA) is an opportunity to prevent and remedy anti-competitive conduct by large digital platforms. If the Act is...
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Strategic Autonomy and Long-term Innovation Competitiveness: On the Importance of Intellectual Property Rights for the Production of High-Value Medicines in the EU
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human CapitalTags: competitiveness EU innovation intellectual property pharmaceutical industry strategic autonomyBy: Matthias BauerEurope’s political leaders have in recent months called for “European industrial autonomy”. Notions of dependency, sovereignty and resilience...
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Time for Fresh Thinking on Northern Ireland and Brexit
By: David HenigThe Good Friday / Belfast Agreement became, with considerable efforts over several years from so many involved, a broadly accepted if never fully...
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Prosperity and Resilience: Diverse Production and Comparative Advantage in Modern Economies
A common version of trade theory suggests that countries will specialise in a limited number of products. Using the example of David Ricardo from...
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The Benefits of Intellectual Property Rights in EU Free Trade Agreements
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade and IP Project Trade, Globalisation and SecurityKey Takeaway 1: What are Intellectual Property Rights and why do they matter? Intellectual Property gives the creator (e.g. an artist, a company...
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The Future of EU Leadership in the Car Industry: Still Global
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityAutomotive is Europe’s key export industry, an important contributor to the EU economy, from balance of payments to employment, and a...
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EU and Mercosur in the Twenty-First Century: Taking Stock of the Economic and Cultural Ties
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance EU-Mercosur Project Latin America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThis policy brief examines the latest developments in the EU-Mercosur economic relationship and outlines the existing non-economic relationship in...
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Business integration and its impact on film industry: The case of Korean film policies from the 1960s until the present
By: Jimmyn ParcWith increasing business integration in cultural industries around the world, it has often been debated whether this process is helpful or harmful....
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Europe’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: Time to Go Back to the Drawing Board
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonThis Policy Brief takes stock of the global and European trade and carbon-emission effects from CBAM. It argues that the current design of the CBAM...
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What does Emily in Paris say about the “Netflix quota” and the “Netflix tax”?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyWhen the Netflix series Emily in Paris was released in October 2020, it was widely watched among audiences around the world. In its first week, it...