Since the early nineties, there has been a veritable boom in the market for all sorts of trade agreements, from bilateral to plurilateral ones, and leading to deep or shallow integration. This boom might at least in part be explained by newcomers in the race. Certainly by the European Union,...

This paper analyzes antidumping (AD) policies in a two- country model with heterogeneous firms. One country enforces AD so harshly that firms exporting to the country choose not to dump. In the short run, the country enforcing AD experiences reduced competition to the benefit of local firm and...

This paper analyzes antidumping (AD) policies in a two- country model with heterogeneous firms. One country enforces AD so harshly that firms exporting to the country choose not to dump. In the short run, the country enforcing AD experiences reduced competition to the benefit of local firm and...

Using firm-level data across developing countries, this paper estimates the effect of credit constraints on machinery and equipment imports (i.e. capital imports). We infer credit constraints from survey questions on the availability and cost of finance instead of relying on firms’ financial...

Cet article analyse le probleme de la fiscalite sur le capital productif pour des pays engages dans un processus d’integration economique. Le resultat largement repandu dans la litterature economique veut que la concurrence fiscale entre Etats se traduise irremediablement par un nivellement...

One of the striking features of many developing Regional Integration Areas (RIAs) is the strong asymmetry between countries. In this paper, we consider a three-country two-sector model in a footloose capital framework. Two of these countries are involved in a regional integration process while...

Les theories de la localisation et du commerce international mettent en evidence que l'integration regionale se manifeste tout d'abord par une phase de divergence et ensuite par une phase de convergence des economies. On montre que si l'on tient compte d'une baisse differenciee des couts de...

This article analyses the trade impact of preferential trade agreements (PTA). We firstly revisit the literature using a “traditional gravity” setting extended to rely on detailed data at the sector level (26 ISIC industries), using a panel of more than 100 countries between...

The analysis of the border effect in a multi-currency framework reveals that volatility accounts for an important part of the border effect in Europe. This paper proposes an explanation of why this methodology yields robust results of the negative effects of volatility on trade, contrary to a...

Les politiques d'achats publics ont souvent ete suspectees d'etre fortement biaisees en faveur des producteurs domestiques, et presentees de ce fait comme un outil deguise de protection commerciale. Cet article, centre sur l'analyse du commerce intra-europeen des annees soixante-dix et...