Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies
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The Economic Losses from Ending the WTO Moratorium on Electronic Transmissions
Research Areas: Africa Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Far East South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThis paper is co-authored with Badri Narayanan, PhD, Associate Professor at University of Washington, Consultant at McKinsey Global Institute, UN...
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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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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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5G and National Security: After Australia’s Telecom Sector Security Review
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityIn August 2018, the government of Australia concluded its review of the national security risks of the telecom sector with the new 5G networks. The...
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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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The Next Steps for the Digital Single Market: From Where do We Start?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Five Freedoms ProjectDigitization has been a boon to the European economy. However, the Digital Single Market remains an aspiration rather than a reality, and European...
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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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Digital Companies and Their Fair Share of Taxes: Myths and Misconceptions
By: Matthias BauerSome (large) EU governments are making the case for digital companies to pay “their fair share of tax”. The key underlying assumption is that...
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Stealing Thunder: Cloud, IoT and 5G will Change the Strategic Paradigm for Protecting European Commercial Interests. Will Cyber Espionage be Allowed to Hold Europe Back in the Global Race for Industrial Competitiveness?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and Security55 billion euros lost annually to cyber espionage. 289,000 jobs at risk. No workable solutions. 26,000,000,000 new devices soon to go...
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The Geopolitics of Online Taxation in Asia-Pacific – Digitalisation, Corporate Tax Base and The Role of Governments
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityGovernments use taxation as a policy instrument to create a favourable business climate in the face of competition from neighbouring countries....