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...

Depuis le milieu des annees soixante-dix, la position des travailleurs les moins qualifies sur les marches du travail des pays industrialises s'est singulierement devalorise. Encore majoritaires dans la population active, leur proportion decroît regulierement depuis vingt-cinq ans. Pourtant,...

This paper investigates empirically the role of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) as determinants of migration inflows for 29 OECD countries in the period 1998-2008. By increasing information about signatory countries, PTAs are expected to drive migration flows towards member countries....

Following Corrado, Hulten and Sichel (2005) this paper investigates French spending in intangible capital. In this work, we tackle two issues. First, working on national accounting data we sharply investigate the data sources, using detailed supply & use tables taken from the French national...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the link between currency misalignments and economic growth. Relying on panel cointegration techniques, we calculate real exchange rate (RER) misalignments as deviations of actual RERs from their equilibrium values for a set of advanced and emerging...