Category: policy brief
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The digital regulatory agenda: How it is shaping up
The escalating concentration in the digital economy has led to a seriously crowded regulatory agenda in 2022 in both the E.U. and the U.S. While the U.S. Federal-level agenda is much focussed on competition aspects, the E.U. has a broader scope, including data privacy and transfer. Akin to the post-2008 supervision of “too-big-to-fail” banks, the…
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Comments on the proposal of revision of the G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance
On 19 September 2022, the OECD released a proposal of revision of the G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance. First drafted in 1999 as a set of OECD Principles (following the Russian and Asian Financial crises), the Principles were substantially revised in 2004 (Enron & WorldCom scandals) and then lightly updated in 2015, when the text…
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The ESG Landscape in 2023
In the past year, the responsible investment community has gone through more developments than in the previous 10 years combined. By the end of 2023, we should have a new G20-endorsed global standard on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting, more stringent disclosure requirements for both listed equity and asset managers in both the EU…
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7 risk scenarios for the world economy
Paris, 30 July 2022 The recent flagship reports by leading international forums – the IMF in April and in July, the WEF in May, the OECD, World Bank and BIS in June respectively – offer a fairly consistent picture of the years to come: in 2022, a peak in inflation and, in response, a gradual…