Insights
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TPP Giving Mad Men a Run for Their Money
As reported by our friends at the FT, President Obama paid a visit to the Pacific Rim (Portland, Oregon to be precise) to campaign for the TPP...
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TPA and the Democratic Disunity – Obama’s Trade Bill, Jobs and Income Inequality in America
Well, they say the TPP deal is now ‘practically wrapped up’. The House and Senate Leadership have now tabled the bipartisan Trade Promotion...
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TTIP in 2015: The View from Brussels
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityIs 2015 realistic for conclusion of the deal? This interview in POLITICO with Hosuk Lee-Makiyama and MEP Marietje Schaake, published in POLITICO is...
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Why Europe Needs to Take TPP Seriously
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: APEC Australia Canada China EU GATT Japan Malaysia Mexico New Zealand RCEP Singapore TPP TTIP US Vietnam WTOThere's no point any longer in pretending: The geo-economic race over the Asia-Pacific is now on - and in the open. Will the TPP coalition declare...
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Why Italy Fails and Swedish Economists are Smug
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceOur friends at Bruegel posted a nice piece called "Why does Italy not grow?" which I missed when it was first published (until a chronically...
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One Country, Two Internets: China and Hong Kong
Shenzhen, also known as China’s Silicon Valley, is located less than 30 km north of Hong Kong. As a leading ICT capital, Shenzhen’s economic...
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Europe’s Fear of Progress
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceTags: EuropeIn these days when the whole of Europe files less patents than Japan; when precautionary principle rules over science, and turns into one of the...
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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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Cheerleading for Trade Agreements
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: TTIPAttempts to raise the public support for trade agreements (even for some of the best ones) sometimes takes surreal forms. Here's one...
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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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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...
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More Threats to European Way of Life (part 3): Movies on Smartphones.
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityNo rest for the wicked – after declaring war on books and taxis, it took the Hollande government less than a week to come back with a new tax on...