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Poverty – Introducing the second edition of the World Bank’s Global Subnational Atlas of Poverty (Minh Cong Nguyen, Judy Yang, Miyoko Asai, Natalie...

Subnational map of poverty at US$1.90 The second edition of the World Bank’s Global Subnational Atlas of Poverty (GSAP) includes subnational poverty rates for approximately...

Innovation & Competition Policy – Stability of collusion and quality differentiation: a Nash bargaining approach (Thanos Athanasopoulos, Burak Dindaroglu and Georgios Petropoulos, Bruegel)

How do incentives to collude depend on how asymmetric firms are? In many markets, product quality is an important parameter that determines firms’ market...

Innovation & Competition Policy – Platform mergers and antitrust (Geoffrey Parker, Georgios Petropoulos, Marshall Van Alstyne, Bruegel)

Platform ecosystems rely on economies of scale, data-driven economies of scope, high quality algorithmic systems, and strong network effects that frequently promote winner-takes-most markets....

Europe – The Conference on the Future of Europe: vehicle for reform versus forum for reflection? (Sergio Fabbrini, John Erik Fossum, Magdalena Gora and...

The European Union after several delays opened the Conference on the Future of Europe on 9 May 2021. Its purpose, according to a March 2021...

Climate Change – Can the Biggest Emitters Set Up a Climate Club? A Review of International Carbon Pricing Debates (Carole Mathieu, (ed.), Arnault Barichella,...

Credit: Marsohod/Shutterstock DOWNLOAD The world’s largest emitting countries are reconsidering the role of carbon pricing instruments and increasingly looking at carbon border adjustment mechanisms (CBAMs) to...

Hamas – Hamas’ Goals, Strategy, and Miscalculations (Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, JCPA)

Rockets from Gaza, on the right, are seen in the night sky fired towards southern Israel from Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip...

Antisemitism – Contemporary Antisemitism in the Political Discourse of Five Western European Countries: Germany, France, Britain, Spain, Ireland (Shahar Eilam, Adi Kantor, Tom Eshed,...

This report, produced by the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), in collaboration with the Jewish Agency for Israel, examines and analyzes the phenomenon...

Global Order – Imagining a World Without US Primacy (Emil Avdaliani, BESA Center)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The shrinking of the American presence in Eurasia will accelerate the creation of new spheres of influence. The US will still be a...

Middle East – Middle East Futures: Defiance and Dissent (James M. Dorsey, BESA Center)

View PDF If the 2010s were a decade of defiance and dissent, the 2020s promise to make mass anti-government protests a fixture of the greater...

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