📣🚨New article🚨📣 #EconTwitter

Ecological Unequal Exchange shows asymmetric transfers of material & energy resources from rich to poor countries. What drives this?

We claim it's ≠ in how countries relate through global value chains👇🧵

Download: bit.ly/3ImFALj The literature says that “trade can have both
positive and negative effects on the environment” (@OECD), because mechanisms with opposite effects on the environment co-exist👇

EUE shows that these mechanisms benefit high-income countries to the detriment of low-income ones. Why?

📣🚨 New article🚨📣

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 👇🧵 First of all, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀? “A set of actors with varying degrees of multilateral, 𝘯𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤 complementarities that are not fully hierarchically controlled" (@jacobides, @CarmeloCennamo, & @AnnabelleGawer, 2018, emphasis added).