Digital Trade
Digital trade — encompassing cross-border e-commerce, data flows, and digitally delivered services — is reshaping global economic geography. GDEF analyses the evolving architecture of digital trade governance, from the WTO e-commerce moratorium to bilateral digital economy agreements, examining how countries can capture the gains from digital trade while managing the distributional impacts and sovereignty concerns.
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4 publications exploring this topic.
The Nash Equilibrium of Cross-Border Data Governance
A game-theoretic analysis of how nations' individually rational data sovereignty policies create a collective action problem that suppresses global digital trade by an estimated 15–25%.
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Sovereign Wealth Funds and Strategic Tech Investment
Sovereign wealth funds have shifted 22% of portfolios to strategic technology. This paper models sovereign investment competition as a Stackelberg game with implications for global tech markets.
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Global Digital Tax Architecture: A Mechanism Design Analysis
The OECD's Two-Pillar Solution to digital taxation reveals fundamental mechanism design challenges. This analysis examines incentive compatibility and proposes institutional improvements.
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Industrial Policy and the Semiconductor Sovereignty Subsidy Race
CHIPS Act, EU Chips Act, and Asian subsidy programmes analysed as a multi-player Prisoner's Dilemma — with $380 billion in fiscal commitments and growing overcapacity risk.
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Analysing the structural transformation of global financial systems through central bank digital currencies, decentralised finance, and inclusive economic models — with emphasis on monetary policy implications and financial stability.
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