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...

This paper analyses the impact of public infrastructure on the competitiveness and growth of the Senegalese economy within the framework of a computable general equilibrium model. Latreille and Varoudakis (1996) demonstrated, in partial equilibrium, that the absence of competitiveness within...

We develop a geographic growth model where nominal wages are allowed to diverge between the two considered countries. Removing the standard assumption entailing that both countries always own a traditional sector, we argue that, as trade gets freer, the traditional sector of one country might...

Les effets des investissements directs étrangers, souvent provenus des pays développés, sur le pays hôte, des pays en développement pour la plupart de temps, sont mitigés. Certains économistes trouvent que les IDE sont bénéfiques pour l’économie d’accueil à cause de la création...

Strongly supported by civil society, the social movement that occurred in Guadeloupe and Martinique last winter had a common theme: the struggle against the high cost of living in these French overseas departments. During forty-four days, two groups of associations and political parties...

This article addresses theoretically the dynamics of innovation and growth paths in an economy producing “standard goods” and emerging “new goods”. We model consumers’ preferences for both types of goods as well as producers’ behaviours in relation with consumers’ decisions. In...

We analyze the relationship between inequality and economic growth from two directions. The first part of the survey examines the effect of inequality on growth, showing that when capital markets are imperfect, there is not necessarily a trade-off between equity and efficiency. It therefore...