Bilateral and regional cooperation initiatives in Asia have been growing in importance over the last five years. These accords span the real and financial sectors; rather than following the more typical pattern of “trade first, money later”, recent policy initiatives involve the simultaneous...

Trade unit values are commonly used as proxies for trade prices in empirical research in international economics. Existing datasets providing international trade unit values for a large number of countries typically suffer from a number of statistical biases, due to the aggregation of unit...

Trade unit values are commonly used as proxies for trade prices in empirical research in international economics. Existing datasets providing international trade unit values for a large number of countries typically suffer from a number of statistical biases, due to the aggregation of unit...

This paper considers what special features of services need to be taken into account in modelling services trade, and summarises methods to quantify barriers to services trade. One feature of services trade policy is the formal recognition within the WTO of commercial presence as a method by...

Trade liberalization across the Americas holds the potential to substantially improve living standards and present a successful model of North-South regionalism. In this paper, we use a global CGE model to assess the effects of such an arrangement for both member and non-member economies. We...

Ce travail developpe un modele d'economie geographique avec mobilite du capital et differentiel de fiscalite visant a apprecier les consequences de l'adhesion des PECO sur les equilibres spatiaux dans l'UEM. La nature du commerce des PECO se rapprochant de celle des pays du sud de l'Europe, un...

Cet article etudie les consequences sur la specialisation internationale, des achats publics biaises en faveur des producteurs nationaux. L'analyse theorique conclut qu'un pays se specialisera dans le secteur relativement favorise par les achats publics (nous appellons ceci "l'effet...

This paper analyzes two potential trade liberalization scenarios: a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and an agreement between MERCOSUR and the European Union (EU). The paper utilizes a world general equilibrium model with some macro elements such as rigidities in wages and exchange rates....

We reassess the trade impact of common currency arrangements – the Rose effect – on the basis of new empirical evidence stemming from the Oceanian Island Countries. In particular, we investigate how the conjunction of a common colonial heritage and membership in a common currency arrangement...

La vision d'une Europe homogene se modifie avec l'elargissement et le partenariat Euro-med. L'evaluation de l'insertion internationale des pays partenaires mediterraneens (PPM) montre que relativement aux nouveaux membres de l'Union elargie, les PPM connaissent une faible convergence reelle et...