Ten countries in Central and Eastern Europe have applied for EU membership and five of them (Estonia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia) have already begun negotiation for accession . All ten countries have Association agreements with the EU, which have liberalised most trade in...

This paper evaluates the role of economic geography in explaining regional wages in China. It investigates the extent to which market proximity can explain the evolution of wages, and through which channels. We construct a complete indicator of market access at the provincial level from data on...

Le premier objectif de l'etude est de mettre en evidence les reseaux regionaux du commerce international, en mesurant la "proximite commerciale" entre les pays. Les coefficients d'intensite relatives bilaterales des echanges permettent une telle mesure. Ils comparent chaqueflux bilateral observe...