China’s Public Procurement Protectionism and Europe’s Response: The Case of...
This paper concerns China’s market for medical technologies and how the Chinese state is assisting its own companies to gain greater sales at the expense of producers from Europe and other advanced...
View ArticleFrom SMEs to Unicorns: What Role for Trade, Standards and New Tech?
The global economy has been shaped by important, disruptive technological changes in recent years. Many of these technologies have been instrumental in our global COVID-19 response and will become the...
View ArticleThe Untold Story of the Korean Film Industry. A Global Business and Economic...
This book analyses the Korean film industry emergence and development in a global business and economic perspective. This is one of the first books to compare the film policies and industries of the...
View ArticleWhat does Emily in Paris say about the “Netflix quota” and the “Netflix tax”?
When the Netflix series Emily in Paris was released in October 2020, it was widely watched among audiences around the world. In its first week, it was listed as one of the top ten most watched shows,...
View ArticleEurope’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: Time to Go Back to the Drawing...
This Policy Brief takes stock of the global and European trade and carbon-emission effects from CBAM. It argues that the current design of the CBAM is not good enough and, ultimately, that there are...
View ArticleBusiness integration and its impact on film industry: The case of Korean film...
With increasing business integration in cultural industries around the world, it has often been debated whether this process is helpful or harmful. The experiences of the Korean film industry provide...
View ArticleEU and Mercosur in the Twenty-First Century: Taking Stock of the Economic and...
This policy brief examines the latest developments in the EU-Mercosur economic relationship and outlines the existing non-economic relationship in order to contextualise the EU-Mercosur Association...
View ArticleThe Future of EU Leadership in the Car Industry: Still Global
Automotive is Europe’s key export industry, an important contributor to the EU economy, from balance of payments to employment, and a manufacturing base to global and European brands; Balancing the...
View ArticleThe Benefits of Intellectual Property Rights in EU Free Trade Agreements
Key Takeaway 1: What are Intellectual Property Rights and why do they matter? Intellectual Property gives the creator (e.g. an artist, a company doing R&D, indigenous peoples, a creative studio) an...
View ArticleProsperity and Resilience: Diverse Production and Comparative Advantage in...
A common version of trade theory suggests that countries will specialise in a limited number of products. Using the example of David Ricardo from 1817, England specialises in cloth and Portugal in...
View ArticleTime for Fresh Thinking on Northern Ireland and Brexit
The Good Friday / Belfast Agreement became, with considerable efforts over several years from so many involved, a broadly accepted if never fully stable political framework for Northern Ireland. A year...
View ArticleStrategic Autonomy and Long-term Innovation Competitiveness: On the...
Europe’s political leaders have in recent months called for “European industrial autonomy”. Notions of dependency, sovereignty and resilience are now also referred to in policy proposals targeted at...
View ArticleThe EU Digital Markets Act: Assessing the Quality of Regulation
The proposed Digital Markets Act (DMA) is an opportunity to prevent and remedy anti-competitive conduct by large digital platforms. If the Act is designed in an adequate manner to target specific...
View ArticleMirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Has the Fairest Clauses of Us All?...
In less than six months, ‘mirror clauses’ have taken EU trade policy by storm. To inject ‘reciprocity’ in trading terms, the French Presidency of the Council is proposing that imported food and feed be...
View ArticleWhen the State Becomes the Only Buyer: Monopsony in China’s Public...
China’s centralised state procurement policies are moving the Chinese market of medical technologies in a monopsonistic direction. A monopsony means that a single buyer exerts strong power to move the...
View ArticleShould the EU Pursue a Strategic Ginseng Policy? Trade Dependency in the...
Political leaders all over the world are calling for strategic autonomy. The removal of critical trade dependencies has become a guiding principle in most policy proposals, including the EU’s new...
View ArticleAfter the DMA, the DSA and the New AI Regulation: Mapping the Economic...
The European Union (EU) has pursued an ambitious agenda for regulating the digital economy, and it is now planning to establish a new package of regulations, including the Digital Markets Act (DMA),...
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The New Wave of Defensive Trade Policy Measures in the European Union:...
This study undertakes a comprehensive review of proposed and adopted defensive trade policy instruments in the EU, with the purpose of better understanding their design, functioning, and implications....
View ArticleThe impact of protectionism on cultural industries: the effect of China’s...
Hollywood studios have actively sought to export more films to China in order to benefit from its huge film market. Facing this expansion, the Chinese government has introduced quotas in order to...
View ArticleProcessing Trade and Global Supply Chains: Towards a Resilient “GVC 2.0”...
In the current global context marked by economic fragility, growing uncertainty and geopolitical conflicts, ensuring the smooth functioning of global supply chains becomes more important than ever....
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