Industrial and Competitiveness Policy
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The EU, ISDS and a Failed Consultation
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonIn the small pond of European trade and investment-policy wonks, the European Commission made some waves two weeks ago when it finally reported on...
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The Politics of TTIP – What are the Key Controversies, How to Address Them?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe recent conference organised by ECIPE on the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) that the EU and the US are currently...
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#ECIPEdebates: ISDS in TTIP – Should it Stay or Should it Go?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityIn his reply to our latest #ECIPEdebate, Simon Lester - trade policy analyst at Cato Institute - expresses the feeling that many of...
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Competition Authorities Should Listen to Jean Tirole
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy Maria Salfi (Intern at ECIPE) The recent Nobel Prize winner in Economics, Jean Tirole, has brought very important contributions to economics –...
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Cracking the Mainstream Notion of Fiscal Competition
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyTags: European Commissionby Maria Salfi (Intern at ECIPE) There is a general widespread notion within the European Union that a lower corporate tax rate can harm...
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Railways Derailing EU-Japan Talks?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecuritySince the mid-2000s, the EU has made the opening of public procurement markets one of its key priorities in the WTO and in the bilateral agreements...
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India, the WTO Bali Package, and Global Value Chains
Research Areas: Industrial and Competitiveness Policy South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityIndia’s economy has become much more liberal over the last 20 years. Its applied tariff rate has gone down from a high 113% in 1990-91 to a low...
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E-health Solutions: is the EU Moving in the Right Direction?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human CapitalTags: healthcareTechnology-based innovations are often seen as a luxury and the healthcare sector is not an exception. However, recent technological innovations,...
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What European Industrial Champions and US Tech Firms Actually Pay in Corporate Taxes
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North AmericaToday, an EU Expert Group on Taxation of the Digital Economy will present its conclusion in the presence of Commissioner President Barroso. The...
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The Costs of Data Localization
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Far East Industrial and Competitiveness Policy South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityIn the aftermath of recent revelations on mass-scale electronic surveillance, there has been a widespread proliferation of internet restrictions. One...
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European Growth and the Stark Economic Reality of a Lost Decade
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Fredrik ErixonI was asked by a couple of news agencies yesterday what I thought of the new winter economic forecast from the European Commission. I am neither...
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Threats to the European Way of Life (part 4)
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyTags: FranceI wrote here about the French peculiar ban against online booking of taxis. Well, yesterday our friends at the FT report that the law has been...