Insights
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Globalisation After COVID-19
It is certain that the world will overcome the COVID-19 crisis, as much as it is certain that in the aftermath the world will look different with...
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A European Industrial Policy for Services: The Single Market
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyIndustrial policy is back on the European agenda. Inside the European Commission headquarters, policy makers are fiercely discussing the instruments,...
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Market Structures in Services
Research Areas: Digital Trade Estimates Project EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyServices have long been thought to suffer from a productivity problem. In fact, there is a long-standing concern that services add little to the...
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China’s Digital Trade Success: Two Different Perspectives
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Digital Trade Estimates Project Far East Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityIn recent times there has been a lot of talk on how big China’s digital trade actually is and to what extent it poses a threat to the global...
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Solving the EU’s Amazon Paradox
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Digital Trade Estimates Project EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyHere’s a question for you. I recently attended a seminar about Europe’s digital future where I was asked: “How come we have the Amazon Paradox...
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Online Platform Restrictions and Small Firm Exports
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityStricter rules on online platforms restrain potential trade, especially for smaller businesses. This is because online platforms facilitate export...
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The Free Flow of Non-Personal Data
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Five Freedoms ProjectEarlier this month MEPs voted to support the final text on the free flow of non-personal data across the European Union (EU). A vast majority of the...
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The Cost of Data Protectionism
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy* This blog is written together with Janez Kren, PhD candidate at the University of Leuven, who is a co-author of one of the studies...
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Are Services Really Not Helping the Economy?
Research Areas: Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyTags: servicesBullocks! That is the conclusion that came to me when I participated in the roundtable conference on services and economic development in Tokyo last...
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Europe’s Productivity Problem
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyThere is a long-standing concern about Europe’s productivity performance, a long-term indicator for sustained economic growth. It is a measure that...
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Data Localization in the EU: The Threat from Inside
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyAs growth in the EU has remained low and the usual channels for recovery such as greater investment or an increase in the working-age population...
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A US Retreat from TPP: What Does Services Trade Tell Us?
Research Areas: Far East Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North America South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityDuring last weekend’s summit meeting of Asia-Pacific leaders in Peru, President Obama made the case that failure to sign on to TPP would...