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...

GeoDist makes available the exhaustive set of gravity variables used in Mayer and Zignago (2005). GeoDist provides several geographical variables, in particular bilateral distances measured using citylevel data to assess the geographic distribution of population inside each nation. We have...

This paper documents the construction of BACI, our international trade database, which covers more than 200 countries and 5,000 products, between 1994 and 2007. New approaches have been developed to reconcile data reported by almost 150 countries to the United Nations Statistics Division,...

Dans le contexte d’une défiance accrue envers la globalisation, et reconnaissant que le ressentiment de certains est parfaitement justifié, ce rapport soutient que le commerce n’est en lui-même ni la source ni la solution a bien des problèmes lui étant attribués. Ce qui est necessaire,...

French Abstract:: Cet article présente une méthode d'évaluation de l'ouverture commerciale applicable au niveau de marchés élémentaires (plus de 5 000 produits et 200 pays). Les barrières aux échanges sont identifiées grâce à un indicateur de discrimination commerciale révélée....