Digital Briefings
November 1, 2017
Published by EPICENTER on November 1, 2017
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Widespread automation is often named as the greatest long-term threat to human employment. But Europe’s immediate job market problems are of a different sort: regulatory, structural and demographic.
November 1, 2017
Published by EPICENTER on November 1, 2017
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Recent years have seen a reduced supply of capital to domestic businesses by banks due to increased capital requirements and compliance costs.
November 1, 2017
Published by EPICENTER on November 1, 2017
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n the wake of the Ecofin meeting that took place in Tallinn on September 15-16, the European Commission published a communication on “A Fair and Efficient Tax System in the European Union for the Digital Single Market” — code for “How to extract more tax revenue from multinational digital companies”.
June 1, 2017
Published by EPICENTER on June 1, 2017
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Platform businesses bring together distinct but interdependent sets of users in such a way as to improve the welfare of each side of the market. Their central value proposition is the reduction of transaction costs, which increases the number of viable exchanges in the market.
April 1, 2017
Published by EPICENTER on April 1, 2017
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Following the latest European Commission proposal on wholesale roaming surcharges across the EEA, on 5 and 6 April, MEPs will debate on and vote for amending Regulation (EU) No 531/2012 as regards rules for wholesale roaming markets.
November 1, 2016
Published by EPICENTER on November 1, 2016
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The arguments on which the various competition cases against Google are being fought involve core features of economic interaction in multi-sided digital markets. As such, the final outcome will have a long-standing impact on platform innovation in the EU.
