Using bilateral trade flow data from 1979 to 1999, we estimate trade integration between Chile and its principal trading partners during the period (European Union, United States and Latin America). Our estimates are based on a gravity speci cation, theoretically grounded on a monopolistic...

This paper develops an intra-industry model of trade with heterogeneous firms to investigate the impact of trade on the evolution of within firm productivity. The main contribution is to incorporate endogenous labor productivity gains. Heterogeneous firms have different incentives to invest in...

This paper studies the impact of trade reforms on the evolution of plant's productivity in Chile (1979-2000). The main contribution of the paper is to construct detailed measures of trade liberalization disentangling the impact of export and import oriented policies. We find evidence of a...

The electronic marketplaces, as an interorganizational entity, is not limited to a transactional dimension. Indeed, those companies that survived the initial consolidation have increasingly expanded their functions and contribute to a new competition dynamic. This new competitiveness has set off...

Les 3 essais sont les suivants : 1. "Les leçons du boom technologique américain : place et rôle des technologies de l'information (TI) dans l'économie américaine" ; 2. "La concurrence" ; 3. "Les relations interentreprises"

Conversion to the single European currency, the euro, requires good management of the transition on the part of companies, both internally and externally, taking into account the importance of communication which is necessary to win consumer confidence. Through the unification of the European...

Within a 2 Country-4 Region setting we study the impact of a reduction in international transport costs over the localisation of firms inside countries.We find that even when countries are symmetrical, but as long as regions within countries are not entirely identical (whatever the differences),...

This paper studies the reasons behind the export performance of different Mexican states from 1994 to 2002. Mexican exports are divided into two components: (1) foreign market potential; and (2) supply capacity. Results suggest that states that experience an increase in supply capacity are, in...