This study investigates the welfare impact of lifting geo-blocking restrictions to cross-border e-commerce in the EU … changes in both consumer and producer surpluses. Finally, we extrapolated these partial results to all online sales in the EU …

In February 2018 the EU adopted the Geo-Blocking Regulation that prohibits any attempts to restrict consumer access to …-commerce, even if modest. We find that the regulation increased real cross-border e-commerce activity inside the EU from 9.2% to 13 …%, depending on model specifications. It increased cross-border trade between EU consumers and e-commerce sites anywhere in the …

The EU seeks to create a seamless online Digital Single Market for media products such as digital music and film. The … empirical evidence on the extent of market segmentation in the EU on the supply side and measures the contribution of several … drivers of this segmentation. We use data from the Apple iTunes country stores in 27 EU Member States. We find that …

-commerce in the EU and elsewhere, and combines this with findings from older research on this subject. It compares online with … and decision-makers involved in EU policy-making on the Digital Agenda for Europe and the EU Digital Single Market …

The paper applies standard public choice reasoning to the negotiations on EU enlargement and the Treaty of Nice. The … present EU countries are respected. Decisive actors in the West are the members of the European Parliament, individuals in … post-entry position of new members. The Intergovernmental Conference is reinterpreted as an opportunity of EU-15 actors to …

The EU seeks to create a seamless online Digital Single Market for media products such as digital music and film. The … empirical evidence on the extent of market segmentation in the EU on the supply and demand side and measures the contribution of … several drivers of this market segmentation. We use data from the Apple iTunes country stores in 27 EU Member States to …

ineffective. The EU is at the Cross Roads. In order to avoid a Stagno-Europe the EU has a choice: Either it looks for the very … sovereignty to the European level. This, however, requires that the democratic deficit at the EU level is reduced. The Treaty of …