.S. productivity levels during the postwar period and finds strong evidence for this phenomenon up to 1990, with rapid growth in … the 1990s, reflecting slower growth in OECD countries, a diminishing of the forces behind the convergence process given …

. If at least one country is better off under free trade, numerical simulations show that the other country and the world … as a whole can be worse off. Trade liberalization can make worse the under-production or the over-production of the risky …

endowments, associated trade diversification paths, openness of low wage Asiatic countries and technological bias in imports. The … growth.(Full text in French) …

The goal of this paper is to gauge the impact of the expected oil price increase on the potential output growth of the … services, and agriculture). The model yields a potential output of growth of about 2 % per year in the absence of oil price … variations. The various scenarios of oil price increases result in a shortage of growth between 0.1 and 0.6 % per year in the …