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Europe, Software and Data Flows: What are the Economics?
This figure shows the accumulated capital stock in software and other computerized information per worker for various European countries for which...
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Time to Resist Dovish Temptations?
Tags: USOn Thursday, the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates for the first time in nine years (figure 1). However, this decision is still surrounded...
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What Types of Protectionist Non-tariff Measures do States Use Most?
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Hanna DeringerDifferent countries have different strategies to protect their markets. This bar chart shows the top 10 export- and import-restricting non-tariff...
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The Japan EU Regulatory Cooperation A Key Agenda for a “Living Partnership”
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: JapanThe last Japan-EU Summit achieved a little noticed but crucial progress. It made a clear call for “further progress in regulatory cooperation”...
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The European Market is a Common Market
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Guest AuthorBy Serena Sileoni, Deputy Director, Instituto Bruno Leoni The EU originated and developed in order to secure for consumers and producers...
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Unleash Entrepreneurial Discovery for Development of Real Digital Economy
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Guest AuthorBy Meelis Kitsing, a lecturer at the Estonian Business School, Director of the Centre for Free Economic Thought The European Union has adopted...
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Manufacturing the Future: Industry 4.0
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyA new wave of technological changes is reshaping the manufacturing sector in its entirety. Autonomous robotics, additive manufacturing, cloud...
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The Case for a European Data Policy
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Guest AuthorBy Richard Robert, Executive Director, ParisTech Review The digital single market is a fact. Neither a project, nor an ambition, just a fact....
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Data Localisation Requirement in Russia: A Self-imposed Sanction
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Russia and EurasiaIn recent years, data localisation requirements have become one of the main threats to the open trading system. As cross-border data flows are...
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Did Western Civilisation Never Really Catch On?
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Roderick AbbottOver the last seven days, as the FIFA story has unfolded, the famous dictum: “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” has...
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Are Europeans Ready to Embrace the Digital Society?
By: Guest AuthorBy Alastair Reed, Renaud Thillaye, Policy Network The European Commission has just set out bold ambitions for a digital single market but...
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Corporation Tax and the Digital Single Market
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Guest AuthorBy Diego Zuluaga, Institute of Economic Affairs & EPICENTER Tax policy has featured prominently in discussions of the EU’s digital...