Publications

A peer-reviewed article in Economica (LSE) examining how the EU’s data-adequacy decisions affect digital trade. These agreements let trusted countries exchange data freely with the EU, and we find they significantly boost digital trade — with an extra “club effect”...

An ECIPE study examining whether the EU’s GDPR has affected digital-services trade with countries outside the EU. We find that after the GDPR took effect, digital-services imports from countries with very different privacy rules grew about 6% more slowly, and EU...

A Bertelsmann, ECIPE and WIIW study in which we have developed an indicator that traces how the EU, United States, China, and Russia have engaged economically with the European neighbourhood countries between 2010 and 2023, examining how geo-economic competition from...