Media
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Digital Technologies, Services and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Erik van der Marel contributes to Working Paper that has been prepared as background for a short Policy Brief for the 2020 T20 Taskforce 1: Trade and Investment
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Trade policy and COVID-19: Openness and cooperation in times of a pandemic
Oscar Guinea writes about how trade policy can help to fight against the current pandemic.
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Export bans reduce supply of medicines, med devices
Oscar Guinea comments on the recent export-ban for COVID-19 related medical products
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Spain goes digital
Digitalisation of the Spanish economy and how Spain compares with other EU countries
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Are Services Sick? How Going Digital Can Cure Services Performance
Services make up the lion share of modern developed economies. But their productivity developments have often been lagging. In this study, we investigate first whether increased digitalisation can actually improve productivity developments in the services sector and conclude that indeed it has strong effects. In a second step, we look into the factors driving digitalisation in the services sector. As a rule, the more competitive a sector is, the more likely it is to adopt digital technologies to improve its productivity.
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Kabotage-Gesetze: Über den Versuch Emmanuel Macrons, Mittel- und Osteuropäer aus dem Europäischen Binnenmarkt zu drängen
Matthias Bauer writes (in German) about the negative implications of restrictions of cabotage in EU freight transport.
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Should Unfairness be Maintained in Corporate Taxation? The Disguise of the Tax Incidence in EU and OECD Corporate Tax Planning
This study is meant to address the failure of governments and international institutions (e.g. the EU, OECD and IMF) to account for the distributional consequences of tax policies. The focus of this study is on the “incidence” of corporate taxes, i.e. the financial burden corporate taxes cause for individual citizens in their capacity as workers, consumers, entrepreneurs and investors.
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Digital Taxes as Barriers to Trade
Matthias Bauer writes about digital services taxes, which by design discriminate against foreign importers of certain digital services.
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ECIPE submission to USTR Section 301 Investigation of France’s Digital Services Tax
ECIPE's comments address the motivation of the French government underlying its DST law and the extent to which it is unreasonable and discriminatory
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New Study Debunks European Commission Claims Justifying New Taxes on Digital Companies
Matthias Bauer research presented by the Tax Foundation.
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Europe’s Tax War on U.S. Tech
Matthias Bauer's research discussed in the Wall Street Journal.