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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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Taxing Digital Services – Compensating for the Loss of Competitiveness
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Digital Trade Estimates Project EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecuritySeveral countries around the world have implemented a tax on digital services, commonly called Digital Services Tax (DST). This policy brief takes a...
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Regulating the Globalisation of Data: Which Model Works Best?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Industrial and Competitiveness Policy New Globalisation Trade, Globalisation and SecurityNovel flows that define the future of globalisation require new regulatory approaches, which are likely to differ between countries. So too for...
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Globalisation Isn’t in Decline: It’s Changing
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Innovation, IP, and Human Capital New Globalisation Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: globalisationGlobalisation isn’t in decline; it is simply changing. Although the COVID-19 crisis has seen a dramatic decline in goods trade, investments and the...
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Shifting into Digital Services: Does a Crisis Matter and for Who?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Trade, Globalisation and SecurityHow do trade patterns change after an external shock such as an economic crisis, and is this shift structural? This paper uses a...
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Patterns of Trade Restrictiveness in Online Platforms: A First Look
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Digital Trade Estimates Project Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyThis paper develops a digital platform restrictiveness index for 64 countries based on ECIPE’s Digital Trade Estimates (DTE) database and the...
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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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The Economic Impact of Local Content Requirements: A Case Study of Heavy Vehicles
The use of local content requirements (LCRs) has been growing for a long time. Used by developed as well as developing countries, they aim to promote...
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Reforming Services: What Policies Warrant Attention?
Economic growth in the European Union has been low for more than a decade now. While some of the poor performance can be explained by the crisis, the...
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Unleashing Internal Data Flows in the EU: An Economic Assessment of Data Localisation Measures in the EU Member States
Forced data localisation measures are on the rise around the world, fragmenting the Internet and increasing costs for businesses and consumers....
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Why Concluding CETA is so Important for the EU
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityPassions have been running high this week as the EU failed to get an agreement about signing off its trade deal with Canada, what is called CETA. As...