[eng] Intra-industry, intra-product trade and international specialization : the french experience between 1960-1985. . The theory of intra-industry trade has been widely developed these last ten years. All the theoretical approaches take as given the empirical predominance of trade of similar...

[eng] Location determinants and multinational firms. A synthetic approach and application to japanese firms in europe. . In the synthetic approach logic, when a firm has a discordance between its own competitive advantage and the comparative advantages of its home country, by locating abroad it...

[fre] Cependant, un affinement de l'analyse peut être tenté avec efficacité à partir de la notion de hiérarchisation des avantages comparés. Celle-ci implique que les caractéristiques des biens échangés et les types d'avantages obtenus dépendent du rang du pays d'origine par rapport à...

[eng] establish a synthetical approach adapted to the NIC's position in the international division of labour. Moreover an analysis of the specific characteristics of international investments and a study of its impact on host countries' comparative advantages is mode. Furthermore the «...

La décision de localisation d'une entreprise multinationale peut être décrite comme une séquence de choix géographiques dans laquelle l'entreprise choisit d'abord un pays puis une région à l'intérieur de ce pays. Cette séquence de choix est confirmée par l'analyse du comportement des...

We propose in this paper to analyse the location of multinational firms value chain in the European Union and new accessing countries. With a conditional logit and a mixed logit, we investigate the location determinants of production and service functions of multinational firms. We use a unique...

As was shown in some previous studies, the creation of the North American Free Trade American (NAFTA) has significantly increased trade and investment flows between member countries. Consequently, it seems appropriate to analyze the incidences of the free trade agreement on the nature of trade....