This article identifies the factors that lead multinational firms to internalize their international exchanges and aims to determine the impact of the implementation of the Single European Market on firms' strategies. We analyze the interaction between the microeconomic characteristics of firms...

This paper aims at evaluating the impact of increasing imports on the reallocation of agrifood production across regions within countries. From French data for the period 1995-2002, we show that regional agri-food production adjusts differently to increasing imports according to the region where...

This paper assesses the evolution of the EU-15 market access for the agri-food products, originating from CEECs. A gravity model technique has been used to assess the overall trade resistance (border effect), and to weight its various components such as tariff and non-tariff measures (sanitary...

C HEVASSUS-LOZZA E. and G ALLIANO D. (2003) Local spillovers, firm organization and export behaviour: evidence from the French food industry, Reg. Studies 37 , 147-158. The objective of this paper is to determine the respective effects of spatial externalities (urban and industrial economies of...

We analyze the impact of input tariffs on the export status and export performance of heterogeneous processing firms. Using a theoretical model with downstream firms exhibiting different levels of productivity, we show that lower input tariffs may increase the export sales of high-productivity...

[eng] In order to replace the common unit of account, operators develop billing rules, thus eliminating the need to negociate means of invoicing before each operation. [fre] Pour remplacer l'unité de compte commune manquante, les échangistes établissent des règles de facturation, évitant...

[eng] Our purpose is to understand the situation of France and Germany in the european market integration of agricultural and agro-food products during the eighthies. Do we observe a reinforcement of the specializations or, on the contrary, are the national productions more and more rival? To...

[eng] International economic literature acknowledges the increasing importance of intra-firm trade (30% of world trade). The purpose of this paper is to use an empirical approach to test how the determinants of these exchanges exert a different influence on the firm's internal and external...