Research

Bryan Mercurio and Ronald Yu

An AI Policy for the (near) Future

Digital trade and digitally enabled services hold the promise of much-needed future growth and prosperity, but also pose unique challenges for trade policymaking. This eBook presents the proceedings from a conference organised by the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the UK Trade Policy Observatory, hosted by CEPR,  to discuss new directions for digital trade policy.   To download…

April 27, 2021

Benjamin Chen

The Expressiveness of Regulatory Trade-Offs

Trade-offs between a sacred value — like human life — against a secular one — like money — are described as taboo. People are supposed to be offended by such trade-offs and to punish those who contemplate it. Yet, the last decades have witnessed the rise of the cost-benefit state. Most of the major rules promulgated today undergo a regulatory impact analysis…

March 1, 2021

Le Yu, Xiapu Luo, Jiachi Chen, Hao Zhou, Tao Zhang, Henry Chang, and Hareton K. N. Leung

PPChecker: Towards Accessing the Trustworthiness of Android Apps’ Privacy Policies

Recent years have witnessed a sharp increase of malicious apps that steal users’ personal information. To address users’ concerns about privacy risks and to comply with data protection laws, more and more apps are supplied with privacy policies written in natural language to help users understand an app’s privacy practices. However, little is known whether these privacy policies are trustworthy or not.…

February 24, 2021