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Economist. Researcher at @Eu_ScienceHub Joint Research Centre @EU_Commission. Data, digital economics, competition policy and commons. Tweets are my own.
Jan 19, 2022 โ€ข 12 tweets โ€ข 5 min read
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Ecological Unequal Exchange shows asymmetric transfers of material & energy resources from rich to poor countries. What drives this?

We claim it's โ‰  in how countries relate through global value chains๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿงต

Download: bit.ly/3ImFALj Image The literature says that โ€œtrade can have both
positive and negative effects on the environmentโ€ (@OECD), because mechanisms with opposite effects on the environment co-exist๐Ÿ‘‡

EUE shows that these mechanisms benefit high-income countries to the detriment of low-income ones. Why? Image
Dec 3, 2021 โ€ข 18 tweets โ€ข 6 min read
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Do digital #ecosystems render traditional market definition (TMD) obsolete? In our new @EU_ScienceHub empirical WP (bit.ly/3DefTti) we argue that this approach is not obsolete, but needs to be complemented with alternative ones. Here is why ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿงต First of all, ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜†๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—บ๐˜€? โ€œA set of actors with varying degrees of multilateral, ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ค complementarities that are not fully hierarchically controlled" (@jacobides, @CarmeloCennamo, & @AnnabelleGawer, 2018, emphasis added). Image