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 than the productivity...

La firme multinationale (FMN), par définition, contrôle un ensemble de filiales localisées dans différents pays. Elle dispose ainsi de la capacité d'internaliser une partie de ses échanges internationaux au sein d'un marché interne à son organisation (échanges intra-firme). De ce fait,...

[eng] By the ceecs accession to the EU, the eu will enlarge its custom union. This implies both the adoption by the new incumbents of the Common external tariffs and the negotiation at the wro of a common list of commitments. The aim of this paper is to estimate, by the use of the Armington...