The paper explores theoretically and empirically why trade intermediaries (TIs) are frequently used as agents for exports to some countries but not to others. We adapt a standard intra-industry trade model with variable export costs (e.g. transport) and fixed export costs (e.g. market access) to...

The paper explores theoretically and empirically why trade intermediaries (TIs) are frequently used as agents for exports to some countries but not to others. We adapt a standard intra-industry trade model with variable export costs (e.g. transport) and fixed export costs (e.g. market access) to...

This paper analyzes the off-shoring strategy from an empirical view. It focuses on a set of models, extracts a set of testable hypothesizes and creates a suitable set of variable to test their validity. This analysis is based on a data set from French manufacturing firms that provides detailed...

This paper focuses on the factors that affect location decisions of multinational firms in the French regions in terms of the type of organizational structure and location characteristics. The objective is to examine the significance of the factors that affect firms’ choice of location and the...

This article investigates the not-so-obvious reasons for which the financial mechanism of asset securitization is so poorly relied on in such developed civil law jurisdictions as France and Germany. Analysis is focused on several constituent elements of this mechanism: a possibility to construct...