Spatial Distribution of Skills and Regional Trade Integration

This article aims at analyzing the problem of real exchange rate appreciation and competitiveness in the EU's ultra-peripheral regions by the case study of La Reunion Island. After describing economic characteristics of this French overseas department, such as the large deficit of the trade...

This article provides a theoretical synthesis of the New Economic Geography to analyse the links between trade, FDI and migrations. We find that liberalizing from high trade costs, a country can attract both capital and labour -- the bifurcation pattern is a gradual peripheral exodus of workers...

The Effect of the Euro on Aeronautic Trade: A French Regional Analysis

By introducing heterogeneity between high-skill mobile and low-skill immobile workers in a model with land rent and commuting costs, we develop a new model in

This article aims at analyzing the trade structure of La Reunion (exports and imports of products, HS6 digit level) over the period 1989–2008. First, we determined several indicators of geographic trade intensity, comparative advantage and openness. These later revealed that, in spite of...

By introducing taste heterogeneity between mobile workers in a New Economic Geography (NEG) model where the housing price is the main driving force behind dispersion of workers we show that residential segregation and agglomeration are not the sole stable equilibria and that dispersion also...

After describing the spatial distribution of the aeronautic industry in France, this study analyzes the determinants of French regional bilateral exports and imports, according to a trade gravity model, for the period 2003–2010. The appreciation of the euro has a negative impact on exports and...

Does Globalization explain Urbanization in the World and in Asia?

Real Exchange Rate and Competitiveness of an EU's Ultra-peripheral Region: La Reunion Island