L’ouverture des économies ne s’est pas, dans tous les cas, accompagnée d’une intensification spontanée de la concurrence. Dans certains secteurs, l'ouverture commerciale a sans doute favorisé la concentration où l’apparition de nouveaux monopoles ou duopoles mondiaux. Loin...

In the early 1980’s, Bernard Lassudrie-Duchêne was one of the first authors to analyse theorically and empirically the international production process decomposition (or fragmentation). This phenomenon, which explains a large part of the intermediate goods international trade, has become one...

The WTO and the OECD along with many other organizations, suggest trade in value-added is a “better” measuring system than gross value in order to better understand the impact of trade on employment, growth and production . When it comes to the "domestic" value chain and internal...

Do good institutions foster trade? Many trade agreements, and notably those of the European Union, introduce institutional provisions in addition to strictly free-trade measures. In this article, we are interested in the influence of democracy and the fight against corruption on trade. We use a...

In 2001, a new round of multilateral negotiations has been launched in Doha (Doha Development Agenda, "DDA”). Hosted and managed by the World Trade Organization (WTO) has stalled and no time limit is set for its completion. The negotiation is based on mechanisms that aim to simplify a complex...