We develop a model economy adapting Hotelling's migration law to make individuals react to the gradient of their … migration law as a dynamic constraint in a spatial model of economic growth in which a policy maker maximizes overall welfare …

A study of daily time allocation to travel and out-of-home activity is conducted across eight European cities over …

-containment policies - the compact city - as a way to reduce the ecological footprint of cities. This approach overlooks the following … basic trade-off: the concentration of activities decreases the ecological footprint stemming from commodity shipping between … cities, but it increases emissions of greenhouse gas by inducing longer worktrips. What matters for the ecological footprint …

In the economic literature it is generally found that trade openness affects environment through various channels …. While the mechanisms through which trade is associated with pollution are largely investigated theoretically and empirically …, the role played by each trade component has not yet received enough attention. This paper attempts to bridge this gap by …

combine trade, aid and investment, which may create 'lock-in' effects. China's trade and investment focus on the commodities …

This paper investigates the determinants of the shape of regional trade agreements (RTAs). Because the world is … constituted by independent political entities, international trade flows take place in a system where property rights are … unsecured and RTAs should be understood as regulation mechanisms. In this theoretical framework, trade and security issues …

study generalises Davis' (1998) idea according to which the institutions of the trade partners matter also for a country … evidence that the interactions between bilateral trade and relative labour market regulations affect the equilibrium …

on trade patterns and industrialization. We propose a multi-industry and two-country trade model featuring demand …

The paper assesses the trade-creating impact of foreign-born residents on the international imports and exports of the … French regions where they are settled. The pro-trade effect of immigrants is investigated along two intertwined dimensions …: the complexity of traded goods and the quality of institutions in partner countries. The trade-enhancing impact of …

changed the geography of trade within France, with a particular focus on the trends experienced by border regions. We support … border regions trade on average 72% more with nearby countries than predicted by the gravity norm. They perform even better … partly due to a decreasing propensity of foreign affliates to trade with their home country. This trade reorientation is less …