La thèse s’inscrit dans le contexte actuel de régulation internationale de la sécurité sanitaire des aliments. Elle se situe au croisement de la théorie du commerce international, de l’économie industrielle et de l’économie du développement. Il s’agit d’évaluer les conditions...

Notre méthodologie empirique repose sur la spécification de Knetter (1993) : comme le taux de marge et le coût marginal ne peuvent être observés, cette spécification empirique permet de saisir, par un jeu complet de dummies temporelles, tous les mouvements communs aux prix des produits...

From the French exporters’ point of view, the purpose of this article is to understand the extent by which the European (EU) market remains fragmented. Based on Chaney’s model (Chaney, 2008) it is shown here that to enter the market, the firm’s productivity must be higher...

After a recession of historic proportions, an export-led recovery is gaining traction in Ireland. The pace of recovery, however, varies sharply across sectors. While export-oriented manufacturing and services, led by large multinationals, have reached record-high levels of output,...

(english) This article theoretically and empirically tests the link between financial constraints and the extensive (proportion of exporters) and intensive (volume of exports) margins of international trade. The article's main contribution is its macroeconomic analysis of this relationship,...

We estimate the degree of trade integration among Brazilian states and calculate the magnitude of the Brazilian states' engagement in international trade in the years 1991, 1997, 1998 and 1999 using the methodology of border effects. We show that the Brazilian market is rather highly fragmented...

In the empirical literature it has been demonstrated that trade can be a powerful engine to enhance economic development and poverty reduction. But international market participation is a multidimensional concept that can be apprehended through different outputs: a greater openness to trade, an...

Legal systems provide the basic institutions for firms and markets to operate. Their quality can have important consequences on the size distribution of firms, who rely on them for contract enforcement. This paper uses the variation in legal system quality across states in Mexico to examine the...

The collapse in world trade volumes at the end of 2008 and beginning of 2009 was exceptional by historical standards. This paper shows that world demand (to which trade has become more responsive in recent decades) can explain most of the collapse in world trade, but that tight credit conditions...

Assembled by Angus Maddison, the most widely consulted data set on worktime in the long nineteenth century is seriously flawed, because it assumes all countries had British work hours. This paper constructs new measures of worktime in Europe, North America and Australia between 1870 and 1900....