Publications
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The Bundes Cloud: Germany on the Edge to Discriminate Against Foreign Suppliers of Digital Services
Matthias Bauer and Hosuk Lee-Makiyama comment on Germany’s new guidelines for government procurement of digital services. In this paper, the...
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A FRIENDLY FIRE ON ECONOMIC RECOVERY: A Methodology to Estimate the Costs of Data Regulations
This background paper describes the methodology used for the ECIPE Occasional Paper called ‘The Costs of Data Localisation: A Friendly Fire on...
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Whither Global Rules for the Internet? The implications of the World Conference on International Telecommunication (WCIT) for international trade
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) will be renegotiating its binding rules, known as the International Telecommunication Regulations...
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FUTURE-PROOFING WORLD TRADE IN TECHNOLOGY: Turning the WTO IT Agreement (ITA) into the International Digital Economy Agreement (IDEA)
Despite being an agreement designed for the fastest developing sectors, the signatories of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) in the World...