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  • Working Paper 15 December 2025

    European regional resilience to supply shocks diffused through Global Value Chains

    By Filippo Bontadini, Valentina Meliciani, Maria Savona and Ariel Wirkierman et al.

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    Summary CITP publication

    This paper examines how supply disruptions originating abroad spread through global and domestic production networks and affect regional economic activity across Europe.

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  • Blog post 8 December 2025

    FinTech regulation and digital sovereignty: The case of Brazil’s mobile payment ‘PIX’

    By Javier Ruiz Diaz, Phoebe Li, Maria Savona, Beatriz Kira and Ana Soares Peres.

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    This blog explores the Brazilian instant mobile payment system and the US case against it.

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  • Academic Paper 8 August 2025

    Structural Change, Innovation and Gender Gaps

    By Maria Savona and Giovanna Vertova et al.

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    While there is a large literature that links structural changes and innovation, their impact on gender gaps is fairly overlooked. This paper aims to fill this gap by providing a selected, and therefore necessarily non-exhaustive, review of the literature and fresh descriptive evidence on the role of structural change and innovations on the gender pay gaps and the gender employment segregation. We look at how firms that innovate tend to share innovation rents and premia heterogeneously, at disadvantage for women, and mention other sources of gender pay gaps. Structural change leads to sectoral compositions mix, which are shown to affect differently the ways women enter and remain employed. Female employment includes a higher share of unpaid work and alternative work arrangements than male employment and is due more to gender stereotypes than women’s capabilities, skills or education. We conclude by offering reflections on how gender gaps, both in terms of employment prospects and equality of earnings, can be tackled within Pasinetti’s framework.

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  • Academic Paper 27 June 2025

    Nearshoring and farsharing in Europe within the global economy: regional trends, structural components and sectoral patterns

    By Filippo Bontadini, Valentina Meliciani, Maria Savona and Ariel Wirkierman et al.

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    This paper documents recent trends in the geographical distribution of value added across Global Value Chains (GVCs). By combining the industry (i.e., source) and value chain (i.e., destination) analytical perspectives, we find two concurrent processes setting Europe’s participation to GVCs apart from other two macro-regions, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. European value chains have recently increased the share of value added they import from within Europe—which amounts to nearshoring—while European country-industries have, from a long-period perspective, increased the share of value added they provide to extra-European value chains—which we refer to as farsharing. We study these trends by decomposing macro-regional dynamics into structural components, zooming in on Europe to highlight country- and sector-level patterns. Crucially, if global final demand decelerates, the positive intra-European spillovers due to regional backward linkages (nearshoring-induced effects) might not become as effective as they could potentially be, given that activating European production increasingly requires extra-European final demand (the farsharing constraint).

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  • Briefing Paper 11 April 2025

    A data and digital trade policy for the UK - economic, societal and industrial policy aspects

    By Minako Morita Jaeger, Ingo Borchert, Phoebe Li and Maria Savona et al.

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    This paper provides an overview of the environment in which digital trade takes place and highlights three areas where the UK Government can design and implement data and digital trade policy

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  • Working Paper 25 February 2025

    Whom do we trust to take trade policy decisions? Evidence from Citizen Juries in the UK

    By Maria Savona, Alice Livingston Ortolani and L. Alan Winters CB et al.

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    This Paper explores public attitudes towards trade policy in the UK through a series of citizen juries.

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  • Blog post 30 January 2025

    The UK needs a coherent strategy of industrial and trade policy

    By Maurizio Zanardi and Maria Savona.

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    Synoposis of the CITP and UKTPO's joint response to the UK government’s consultation on its industrial strategy, Invest 2035

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  • Briefing Paper 28 November 2024

    The Uneven Geography of Digital Infrastructure

    By Ioannis Papadakis and Maria Savona et al.

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    This Briefing Paper focuses on the geographical distribution of data centres and cloud service providers. The authors discuss the potential drivers and implications of the location and uneven geography of data centres and cloud providers for businesses and countries.

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  • Evidence 18 October 2024

    House of Lords International Agreements Committee inquiry on Data and digital trade

    By Minako Morita Jaeger, Javier Ruiz Diaz, Phoebe Li and Maria Savona et al.

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    Summary CITP publication

    This written evidence submitted by CITP and UK Trade Policy Observatory (UKTPO) to the House of Lords International Agreements Committee on "Data and digital trade", looks at how developments in digital trade and the digitisation of trade should be reflected in agreements the UK Government negotiate and sign. CITP and UKTPO members include Minako Morita-Jaeger, Javier Ruiz, Phoebe Li and Maria Savona.

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  • Blog post 7 March 2024

    Unfinished Business: Four Perspectives on Incomplete Inclusivity in Trade

    By Ingo Borchert, Emily Lydgate and Maria Savona.

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    This blog shines a spotlight on four areas in which inclusivity in trade could improve. This entails the protection of worker rights, participation rates of women in trade, environmental sustainability in agri-food trade, and listening to and understanding the general public’s views on trade policy.

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