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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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“The Logic of Zero”: Boosting SMEs Trade in TTIP
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has several novelties. One is that it will include, for the first time in a free...
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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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Turning China’s Money Reserves into Capital
Research Areas: Far EastTags: ChinaSome economies in East Asia have built up large amounts of foreign exchange reserves in the past decades. Holding large amounts of reserves helped...
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“Splendid Isolation” as Trade Policy: Mercantilism and Crude Keynesianism in “the Capaldo Study” of TTIP
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityA recent study by Capaldo suggests that TTIP would have seriously negative consequences for trade, growth, income and employment in Europe. It has...
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The European Union’s China Policy: Priorities and Strategies for the New Commission
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe arrival of a new European Commission is a good opportunity for Europe to re-consider its policy vis-à-vis China. Under Xi Jinping, China is...
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The Health of Nations: A Transatlantic Trade and Investment Agenda for Better Healthcare
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityToday, increases in the demand for healthcare are driving European governments to look for ways to control growth in healthcare expenditures and at...
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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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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 Retrospective on the Korean Film Policies: Return of the Jedi
By: Jimmyn ParcThe Korean film industry offers a remarkably successful and fascinating story all the more because it was largely unexpected. Almost totally...
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Cities and the Wealth of Nations: How can Helsinki, London, Paris and Stockholm prosper from TTIP?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe two major forces shaping the global economy are globalisation and urbanisation. Both these forces have both contributed to a much greater role of...