The establishment of multinational firms in the technological sector may have different effects on growth and on the location where domestic firms choose to set up in a developing country, depending on whether linkage effects or the effects of competition prevail. This theoretical model,...

We develop an economic geography model which examines the spatial concentration of different kinds of activities during four stages of regional development. First, the localization of a "standardized" industry can be based on the exploitation of external and pecuniary scale economies within a...

This work aims to assess the impact of the creation of a Euro- Mediterranean free-trade area on the Moroccan economy and to simulate some accompanying economic policies with the help of a general equilibrium model computable in imperfect competition and with increasing returns on scale. The...

In this paper, we analyse the "direct investment v. export" decision of a multinational firm in competition with a potential entrant in a host country. We consider that there exists an asymmetry between the skills of workers from the host country and those of workers from the multinational's...

This paper aims to estimate the technical efficiency of the agricultural sector in a group of Mediterranean countries involved in the process of global market liberalization. The analysis applies the stochastic production frontier model to a set of six different crop products. For each product,...

This paper examines the evolution of the geographical distribution of foreign direct investments (FDIs) in China during its opening process. We measure the concentration degree of FDIs at different geographical levels. At the inter-provincial level, we find that the concentration degree of FDIs...

Using Local Labor Systems (LLSs) data, we assess the effect of the local productive structure on employment growth in Italy during the period 1981-2008. Italy represents an interesting case study because of the high degree of spatial heterogeneity in local labor market performances and of the...

Abstract - This article expounds the main findings of a research program on the reflation of local economies in West Africa. It was developed by the Municipal Development Program (MDP) in collaboration with the Sahel Club, and aims at implementing local information systems. This program does not...

The negative relationship between wages and unemployment, embodied within the so-called wage curve, has an extensive literature and has been referred to as ‘an empirical law of economics’. However there are newer alternative theories that seek to explain the variation in wages without...

An important literature has focused on then rank size rule and the Zipf’s law without delivering significant results. Among the reasons for this low scientific productivity, one can find ommisions and misunderstandings between different scientific fields, the generalization of physical and...