The continuous innovation process experienced by the information technology industries over the last decades has caused the price of computer power to decrease dramatically. This has led many firms to invest massively in increasingly efficient computers. This paper is an attempt to assess the...

This paper provides evidence based on French macroeconomic data, that shocks on the cost of oil inputs are transmitted asymmetrically to the prices of fuel. We use an error correction model to estimate the dynamics of the transmission of the cost of crude oil expressed in French currency, to the...

We estimate the technology of air pollution abatement, defined as a relation between conventional production, emissions and the inputs specifically allocated to the environmental protection. We use original firm-level data on both air emissions and investments in abatement equipment. We deal...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact of environmental regulations on the location choices by French firms of their industrial activities. We examine a sample of 3,856 import flows of French firms from foreign industrial subsidiaries in 1999. We first observe that the most pollution...