Digital Briefings
September 1, 2018
Published by EPICENTER on September 1, 2018
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The European Commission has proposed a tax on revenues raised from certain digital activities. However, this is essentially a political gesture with only weak economic foundations.
December 1, 2017
Published by EPICENTER on December 1, 2017
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Google Android is usually described as a mobile operating system – the software that links mobile hardware with applications and thus enables users to operate their smartphones in an effective way.
November 1, 2017
Published by EPICENTER on November 1, 2017
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Widespread automation is often named as the greatest long-term threat to human employment. But Europe’s immediate job market problems are of a different sort: regulatory, structural and demographic.
November 1, 2017
Published by EPICENTER on November 1, 2017
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Recent years have seen a reduced supply of capital to domestic businesses by banks due to increased capital requirements and compliance costs.
November 1, 2017
Published by EPICENTER on November 1, 2017
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n the wake of the Ecofin meeting that took place in Tallinn on September 15-16, the European Commission published a communication on “A Fair and Efficient Tax System in the European Union for the Digital Single Market” — code for “How to extract more tax revenue from multinational digital companies”.
June 1, 2017
Published by EPICENTER on June 1, 2017
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Platform businesses bring together distinct but interdependent sets of users in such a way as to improve the welfare of each side of the market. Their central value proposition is the reduction of transaction costs, which increases the number of viable exchanges in the market.
