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Addressing the Regulatory Divergences in the Medical Devices Sector
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North AmericaTags: medical technologyMedical devices are not just simple commodities. They are the result of decades of research and development and scientific advancement, and...
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The Bundes Cloud: Germany on the Edge to Discriminate Against Foreign Suppliers of Digital Services
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: cloud services data localisation digital economy digital services Digital Single Market Germany governance public procurementMatthias Bauer and Hosuk Lee-Makiyama comment on Germany’s new guidelines for government procurement of digital services. In this paper, the...
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New Zealand: The EU’s Asia-Pacific Partnership and the Case for a Next Generation FTA
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityGiven the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and several intra-Asian agreements, the EU is focused on large-sized free trade agreements (FTAs) to avoid...
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Data Localisation in Russia: A Self-imposed Sanction
Cross-border data flows are an integral mechanism of today’s economy, impacting a country’s competitiveness and growth. All economic sectors...
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The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: An Accident Report
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThis Policy Brief is co-authored with Bob Vastine and J Bradford Jensen The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) was...
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Familiar Fault Lines: The Myth of EP Independence in Economic Policy-making
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceThe Lisbon Treaty expanded the scope and depth of the European Parliament’s powers by bringing the bulk of EU legislation under the ordinary...
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TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP: A Challenge to Europe
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East North America South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityWhat if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is not a doomed initiative – and what if it will actually make inroads into modern trade problems? The...
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A FRIENDLY FIRE ON ECONOMIC RECOVERY: A Methodology to Estimate the Costs of Data Regulations
Tags: data data flows digital economy digital policy digital tax digital trade Facebook Google OECD regulation taxThis background paper describes the methodology used for the ECIPE Occasional Paper called ‘The Costs of Data Localisation: A Friendly Fire on...
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Les Fonds Souverains de Brevets (FSB) :Un nouvel instrument de défense commerciale?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: trade defenceLa prolifération des fonds souverains de brevets (FSB) fait peu débat alors même qu’il existe une demande croissante en faveur de règles, au...
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Sovereign Patent Funds (SPFs): Next-generation Trade Defence?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: trade defenceWhile there is an increasing demand for a discipline in the next generation FTAs that restricts SOEs in international trade, there is less debate on...
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OECD BEPS: Reconciling Global Trade, Taxation Principles and the Digital Economy
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Trade, Globalisation and SecurityFollowing media reports on the low tax rates paid by some of the world’s largest multinationals, international tax reform has moved to the top of...
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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...