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...

[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...

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] By the ceecs accession to the EU, the eu will enlarge its custom union. This implies both the adoption by the new incumbents of the Common external tariffs and the negotiation at the wro of a common list of commitments. The aim of this paper is to estimate, by the use of the Armington...

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...

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...

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...

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...

[eng] In order to replace the common unit of account, operators develop billing rules, thus eliminating the need to negociate means of invoicing before each operation. [fre] Pour remplacer l'unité de compte commune manquante, les échangistes établissent des règles de facturation, évitant...