Marta Soprana

Marta Soprana
LSE IDEAS

PhD
DIgital IR Project Associate, LSE IDEAS

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Publications (25)
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Governments have recently started to design policies that are specific to artificial intelligence (AI), which is projected to become the dominant technology in the decades to come. AI is increasingly permeating all aspects of the digital economy, including trade in goods and services, giving rise to concerns whether emerging AI-specific regulation...
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Scholarly work on the most recent regulatory approach to digital trade by WTO members, the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA), is still rather limited. Attempting to fill the gap in literature, this article seeks to assess the significance of this first stand-alone, monothematic trade agreement which is entirely and exclusively dedicated...
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Major technological advances over the past two decades have led to the development of new business models, an increase in the complexity of production systems and a sharp rise in the volume of cross- border transactions conducted over digital networks. Launched in 1998 with the putative aim of building consensus over the key parameters of global di...
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This joint report by IISD and the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra reviews the role that services play in supporting circular economy business models and draws on new empirical research in the form of a survey and set of interviews to identify how firms buy and sell services to support their circular economy activities and the extent to which they buy...
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Amid increasingly strained economic relations between the United States and China, several measures recently imposed by the US government under its sanc- tions laws regime against ZTE and Huawei — two leading Chinese corporations operating in the telecommunication equipment sector — have reignited the debate over the legitimacy of the alleged extra...
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Although services facilitation is recent topic of discussion at the World Trade Organization, it is not novel in the context of regional trade agreements (RTAs), where provisions on increased transparency, improved administration of procedures, and advanced disciplines on regulatory requirements can often be found. This paper, utilising the concept...
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This article explores the (hitherto futile) quest for developing disciplines on the trade-and investment-distorting effects of services subsidies. It sheds light on the multiplicity of factors that have weighed on the conduct of negotiations on subsidy disciplines in a services trade context at both the global and preferential levels, including fac...
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Unlike conventional trade agreements, the scope of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) extends beyond the treatment of products to cover that of suppliers (producers, distributors, etc) as well. Trade problems confronting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) supplying services have thus been raised by WTO Members at different sta...
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Investment incentives rank among the most important policy instruments governments employ to influence the locational and behavioural decisions of multinational firms. Following the recent increase in locational competition fuelled by the spread of global value chains (GVCs) and the growing impact of support measures for state-owned enterprises (SO...
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Investment incentives rank among the most important policy instruments governments employ to influence the locational decisions of multinational firms. In the wake of the recent increase in locational competition and the growing impact of investment incentives and support measures for state-owned enterprises (SOEs), the need for enhanced discipline...
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Unlike conventional trade agreements, the scope of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) extends beyond the treatment of products to cover that of suppliers (producers, distributors, etc) as well. Trade problems confronting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) supplying services have thus been raised by WTO Members at different sta...
Technical Report
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This publication studies e-commerce-related policies that affect SMEs’ engagement in cross-border e-commerce. It identifies the bottlenecks and requirements of e-commerce participation and presents examples of best practices in regulating cross-border e-commerce. The paper addresses competitiveness issues in each segment of the cross-border e-comme...
Conference Paper
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Investment incentives rank among the most important policy instruments governments employ to influence the locational decisions of multinational firms. In the wake of the recent increase in locational competition and the growing impact of investment incentives and support measures for state-owned enterprises (SOEs), the need for enhanced discipline...
Conference Paper
This paper explores the hitherto futile quest for developing disciplines on the trade- and investment-distorting effects of services subsidies. It sheds light on the multiplicity of factors that have weighed on the conduct of negotiations on subsidy disciplines in a services trade context at both the global and preferential levels and advances a fe...
Chapter
In spite of the extensive literature on the regulation of air transport services, until the development of the Quantitative Air Services Agreements Review (QUASAR) methodology no systematic review existed of the degree of liberalization granted through air services agreements. The chapter lays out QUASARs key features, and presents the main results...
Chapter
In spite of the extensive literature on the regulation of air transport services, until the development of the Quantitative Air Services Agreements Review (QUASAR) methodology no systematic review existed of the degree of liberalization granted through air services agreements. The chapter lays out QUASARs key features, and presents the main results...
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Issues related to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) supplying services have been raised at earlier stages of the Doha Round in various negotiating contexts and, more recently, at meetings of the Council for Trade in Services. It is difficult, however, to find a common denominator as to whether SME-related concerns might merit attention, fr...

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