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The Doha Negotiations on Trade in Goods: An European Perspective
The note reviews the basic market access issues in the Doha negotiations on trade in goods from an European perspective. First, it shows that some European negotiators... -
Gravity Equations: Workhorse, Toolkit, and Cookbook
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Energy market liberalisation and renewable energy policies in OECD countries
We analyse the impact of market liberalisation on renewable energy policies in OECD countries. To this end, we first develop an aggregated indicator of renewable... -
Spillovers, product substitution and R&D investment : theory and evidence
We investigate the conditions under which R&D investment by rival firms may be negatively or positively correlated. Using a two-stage game the influence of... -
Are Export Premia Robust to Innovation Statistics?
This paper analyses in what extent innovation contributes to the productivity premium of exporters. We start by performing non parametric tests on TFP distributions on... -
La ségrégation spatiale selon Schelling : la perversité est ailleurs
La modélisation de la ségrégation spatiale proposée dans les années 1970 par Thomas C. Schelling a marqué les esprits en raison de l'effet pervers qu'elle suggérait :... -
Country Size, Appropriate Policy, and Economic Performance: Some Evidence fro...
This paper investigates economic performance and policies in OECD countries. Our hypothesis is that the effects of policy are determined by country-size. We employ non... -
European economic governance the Berlin-Washington consensus
This paper argues that the European Union has gone farther than any other country or institution in internalizing the prescriptions of the Washington Consensus.... -
Voter Turnout and Fiscal Policy
Though a large literature on the determinants of turnout has ourished, there is scant evidence on the causal impact of turnout on policies implemented in practice.... -
Trade Liberalization in South East Europe: Review of Conformity of 23 FTAs wi...
In June 2001, seven countries1 of South East Europe (SEE) agreed to conclude bilateral Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) in order to develop their mutual trade and promote... -
Assessing the EC Trade Policy in Goods
The EC should position itself as a WTO Member with a long term view of the world trade regime. Assuming responsibility for the future relevance of the world trading... -
The Doha Negotiations on Trade in Goods: At a Crossroads
In their current haste to deliver, the Doha negotiators seem to head for a package combining increased market access for "easy" products (mostly those with low or... -
Financial constraints as a barrier to export participation
The paper analyzes the link between financial constraints and firms' export decisions, using a large micro-level data set on French manufacturing firms over the... -
Using Complex Network Analysis to Assess the Evolution of International Econo...
Over the past four decades the High Performing Asian Economies (HPAE) have followed a development strategy based on the exposure of their local markets to the presence... -
The Impact of Financial Constraints on Firms Survival and Growth
We propose a new approach for identifying and measuring the degree of fnancial constraint faced by firms and use it to investigate the effect of financial constraints... -
Export prices and increasing world competition : evidence from French, German...
The paper compares the export price strategies of France, Germany and Italy using a large and common pool of manufacturing products and destination markets. Our... -
Euregio: esportatori e non esportatori a confronto
Questo studio riprende e approfondisce alcuni degli spunti emersi dal rapporto sulla dinamica dell'export pubblicato dall'Eurobs lo scorso anno. Le tre province che... -
A sociological checklist for assessing environmental health risks
The contribution of social sciences to risk assessment has often been confined to dimensions of risk perception and communication. This article relates an effort to... -
Sortir de l'impasse des APE : pour une initiative des pays ACP à l'OMC
Les pays ACP doivent donc prendre une initiative dans l'intérêt de leur développement. Se tourner vers l'Europe n'a guère de sens actuellement : pourquoi espérer de... -
Inversion d'opérateurs de courbures au voisinage de la métrique euclidienne
We show that some curvature operators are locally invertible, in some weithted sobolev spaces, near the euclidian metric. (Nous montrons que certains opérateurs...
