Digital economy and innovation
The rapid pace of digital and innovative change can provide us with new tools to address complex policy challenges.
Technology adoption in the current crisis could play a major role in economic recovery. The right mix of industrial policies, single market policies and competition policy continues to be an important question. Issues such as global value chain disruptions caused by semiconductor shortages posed a challenge for the digital sector and for the economy at large.
Against this backdrop, our scholars have focused their research on multiple areas, including COVID-19’s impacts on digital technology adoption, the digital market act, the chips shortage crisis, data usage and international data transfers, and innovation in the health sector
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Artificial intelligence and job quality
A timely discussion about the role AI plays in job quality
Fishing for Chips: Assessing the EU Chips Act
The EU Chips Act, announced in February 2022, represents a real break in Europe's industrial policy.
Is the European Union on course to become the big loser in the global tech race?
To sustain the innovativeness of its economy, Europe needs reforms.
Is MiCA the end of the crypto wild-west?
As the process of digitalisation makes ideas around decentralised finance more relevant, there will be an increasing need for monitoring
A decade of economic policy
Guntram Wolff looks back at the past decade of Bruegel contribution to economic policy in Europe.
COVID-19 and the shift to remote work
Hybrid arrangements in which part of the week is spent at the office, and part at home, are likely to become the norm.
A practical arrangement for cooperation between digital economy regulators
A practical arrangement based on case information, case allocation and case resolution would ensure consistency and effective enforcement.