Last year, the European Commission proposed a comprehensive reform of the EU’s data protection rules. The proposed …, industry groups, research centres and privacy campaigners on both sides of the Atlantic. This Forum applies cool economic … reasoning to this heated issue. What are the potential economic benefits of EU harmonisation? Will the proposed regulation …

-financial firms in the EU and the US, this article documents the trend towards twin digital and green investment in the corporate … their investments post-COVID-19. Comparing EU and US firms, the pandemic did not help to bridge the digital gap between the … EU and the US, with European firms more likely to be stuck on the wrong side of the digitalisation divide. Still, they …

which can provide an optimal balance between consumers’ interest in privacy and the benefits from innovations that rely on …