[eng] Globalisation and the appearance of new technologies for the transmission of information are placing knowledge at the heart of economic regulation. Agglomeration externalities and cumulative underlying mechanisms are a powerful vector for the structuring of the productive landscape. Our...

Using a monopolistic competition model with mobile capital, in which firms may choose between ¡°dirty¡± or ¡°clean¡± technology, this paper investigates the relationship between the environment, trade liberalization, and the geographical and technical choices of multinational firms....

Ce travail developpe un modele d'economie geographique avec mobilite du capital et differentiel de fiscalite visant a apprecier les consequences de l'adhesion des PECO sur les equilibres spatiaux dans l'UEM. La nature du commerce des PECO se rapprochant de celle des pays du sud de l'Europe, un...

After ten years, the Mercosur seems to be the most successful integration process in Latin America. However, its development remains imperfect due to asymmetric situations between the countries. Brazil is the regional industrial block and the integration process would lead his partners to become...