This paper analyzes the access of Eastern and Southern Mediterranean countries to the EU fruit and vegetables market and provides a measure of the level of preferences from which they benefit. To take into account the complexity of EU protection in the F&V sector, in particular the seasonality...

This paper evaluates the role of tariffs in the overall trade barriers faced by Mediterranean countries that export fruit and vegetables to the European Union (EU), using a gravity model. With an annual specification, we measure the border effect faced by the Mediterranean countries on entering...

C HEVASSUS-LOZZA E. and G ALLIANO D. (2003) Local spillovers, firm organization and export behaviour: evidence from the French food industry, Reg. Studies 37 , 147-158. The objective of this paper is to determine the respective effects of spatial externalities (urban and industrial economies of...

[spa] Efïcacia técnica y ganancias potenciales de productividad de las explotaciones cerealistas francesas, . por Isabelle Piot, Jean-Philippe Boussemart, Benoît Dervaux, Dominique Vermesch.. . En este estudio se examina la hipótesis segûn la cual el nivel de efïcacia microeconómica...

We analyze the impact of input tariffs on the export status and export performance of heterogeneous processing firms. Using a theoretical model with downstream firms exhibiting different levels of productivity, we show that lower input tariffs may increase the export sales of high-productivity...

This article identifies the factors that lead multinational firms to internalize their international exchanges and aims to determine the impact of the implementation of the Single European Market on firms' strategies. We analyze the interaction between the microeconomic characteristics of firms...

[spa] Una disyuntiva para las firmas multinacionales : exportaciones intrafirma o directas I Por que se deciden las empresas por unos intercambios intrafirma En que medida influye esta decision en el volumen de exportaciones ? En Francia, por ejemplo, estos intercambios representan la tercera...

This paper assesses the evolution of the EU-15 market access for the agri-food products, originating from CEECs. A gravity model technique has been used to assess the overall trade resistance (border effect), and to weight its various components such as tariff and non-tariff measures (sanitary...

From the French exporters' point of view, the purpose of this article is to understand the extent by which the European (EU) market remains fragmented. Based on Chaney's model (Chaney, 2008) it is shown here that to enter the market, the firm's productivity must be higher than the productivity...

[eng] International economic literature acknowledges the increasing importance of intra-firm trade (30% of world trade). The purpose of this paper is to use an empirical approach to test how the determinants of these exchanges exert a different influence on the firm's internal and external...