Après avoir brièvement rappelé les raisons par lesquelles la théorie économique justifie traditionnellement le recours au péage urbain, l’article examine les principaux éléments qui expliquent les résistances des agents économiques, afin d’en comprendre les fondements économiques....

L’article s’intéresse aux effets prévisibles de la Directive Services. En premier lieu il étudie les trois manières d’interpréter l’expression commerce de services : celle des Comptes nationaux, celle de la Balance des Transactions Courantes et celle de la Directive. En deuxième...

Based on a gravity analysis, the paper shows that there is a significant relationship between goods and services exports, at least as they are measured in the current account of the BOP. Truly enough several recent works have already, but incidentally, shed some light on this issue. The paper is...

The paper deals with the issue of integration and trade of services industries. It argues that the specificities of services producing industries compared to goods producing industries explain several difficulties of the new approach to international trade in services. First, the paper discusses...

This paper deals with a specific institution of the Swiss labour market called the work peace agreement. It notably appeared in 1937 in the machine and metal work industry. First, the paper portrays the characteristics of the agreement and work peace clauses in Switzerland. Second, the paper...

The paper focuses on the impact of the Full Market Opening in postal services especially on prices. The paper first summons up the specificities of the sector and the deregulation implemented so far. The paper then studies the consequences on separated prices and the survival of the historical...

The paper deals with the links between goods and services exports. First it explains the reasons why services exports are presumably connected with manufacturing exports and altogether to goods exports. The paper scruti-nises the various headings of the services account of the BOP. It points out...

The two new manuals of the National Accounts (SNA 2009) and of the Balance of Payments (IMF 2009) are implementing many new features that protract innovations firstly introduced in 1993. Among those, the paper focuses on the treatment of non financial services. The first section of the paper...

Cet article présente une perspective d’économiste sur les contours de la prestation de services, dans la perspective du commerce de services. Il est l’occasion de faire un tour d’horizon rapide des connaissances disponibles sur le commerce de services dans l’Union Européenne (UE). Il...

A new definition of service has been proposed by Hill (1999) and endorsed by SNA and BOP last updates. The paper studies its consequences for industrial classifications, such as ISIC, and on the respective shares of goods and services producing sectors. The first section reminds the main...