Industrial and Competitiveness Policy
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The French Audiovisual Policy: An Evaluation
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyThe two last years have witnessed a hot debate in France on whether the current French audiovisual policy has had a positive or a negative impact on...
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La politique audiovisuelle française: a bout de souffle
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyCes deux dernières années, la France a connu un vif débat sur l’impact de la politique audiovisuelle actuelle sur le rayonnement de la culture...
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The Costs of Data Localisation: A Friendly Fire on Economic Recovery
This paper aims to quantify the losses that result from data localisation requirements and related data privacy and security laws that discriminate...
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The “Repsol Case” Against Argentina: Lessons for Investment Protection Policy
Research Areas: Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Latin America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonAre Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) fit for purpose – to help resolving disputes between investors and states in an efficient, fair and...
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Investing in Obesity Treatment to Deliver Significant Healthcare Savings: Estimating the Healthcare Costs of Obesity and the Benefits of Treatment
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human CapitalTags: healthcareBy: Fredrik ErixonObesity rates in Europe have been growing at an accelerated speed in the past two decades. In the European Union, between 36.9% and 56.7% of all...
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Argentina, the Expropriation of Repsol YPF, and the Case for Improved Investment Protection Accords
By: Fredrik ErixonArgentina’s expropriation of Repsol’s shares in the Argentinean energy company YPF sent chock waves through the international investment...
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Who’s Afraid of China’s High-Tech Challenge?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Far East Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityOver the last 30 years, the speed and scale of China’s economic rise have stunned the world. Now its government has mapped out bold plans for the...
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Biofuels Reform in the European Union: Why New ILUC Rules will Reinforce the WTO Inconsistency of EU Biofuels Policy
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonThis paper takes stock of the proposals by the European Commission and members of the European Parliament to amend the Renewable Energy Directive...
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EU Policies on Online Entrepreneurship: Conversations with U.S. Venture Capitalists
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North AmericaBy: Fredrik ErixonThis paper examines the role of policy for creating an attractive atmosphere for venture capital investments in online start-ups and...
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PRICE TAGGING THE PRICELESS: International reference pricing for medicines in theory and practice
International reference pricing (IRP) has become a popular policy instrument in Europe as government seeks to curb healthcare costs and notably...
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One Year After the Foul Expropriation of YPF: Argentina’s Road to Ruin
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Latin AmericaBy: Fredrik ErixonIt is one year ago since the Argentinian President, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, introduced the bill that allowed the government to expropriate...
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A Fibre-Rich Diet for Europe: Is the EU’s Next Generation Access Strategy Compromising on Competition?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyGiven the unsatisfactory deployment of fibre based Next Generation Access (NGAs) networks in the EU, the European Commission proposes in a draft...