This paper is a first attempt, for metropolitan France, to identify the service activities that are internationally traded and of those that could become so, i.e. those that can be technically produced and consumed in different places. Our estimates show that only half of service activities are...

This paper determines which are, among different type of gravity model, those best adapted to the study of the evolution of trade of several economic areas and of the heterogeneity of the behaviors of the countries constitutive of these zones (fixed effect model; random effect model; model with...

This paper determines which gravity models are the best adapted to the study of the trade evolution of several economic areas and the behaviors heterogeneity of the countries that belong to these areas (fixed effect model; random effect model). Applied to the countries of UE15, NAFTA, MERCOSUR,...

French Abstract: A la suite d'une abondante littérature sur le rôle important du développement des clusters pour l'innovation et la croissance dans les économies fondées sur la connaissance, les politiques de cluster ont été récemment et de façon croissante remises en cause par les...

Ce document de travail propose une évaluation de la performance des ports de l’Axe Seine (Le Havre, Rouen, Caen, Paris), une analyse de l’impact de ces ports sur leur territoire et une appréciation des politiques et de la gouvernance dans ce domaine. Il fait le constat du caractère...

Ce document de travail propose une évaluation de la performance du port de Marseille-Fos, une analyse de l?impact de ce port sur son territoire et une appréciation des politiques et de la gouvernance dans ce domaine. Il fait le constat du caractère déclinant de la performance portuaire au...

In this paper, we pursue several goals; we first check if the downward trend in corporate income tax rates in Europe reflects a strategy of tax competition, and not a "yardstick competition" in neighboring countries. We estimate the scale of fiscal externalities on neighboring countries in terms...

This paper contribtes to the small empirical literature dealing with strategic tax behaviors of small EU countries. We estimate tax reaction functions of national governments competing with each other. Deriving a simple model of tax competition in a Nash and Stackelberg framework, we use panel...

Over the last decade, many researchers have focused on the study of different urban hierarchies and their evolution over time. These studies may or may not confirm Zipf’s law and emphasize the characteristics of urban growth. The question is then whether urban growth depends upon city-size or...