Un quart de notre consommation de biens porte sur des biens en provenance des pays de délocalisation et permettent au consommateur final de réaliser des gains de pouvoir d'achat substantiels, par rapport à l'achat de produits équivalents Made in France. Nous évaluons ces gains potentiels de...

Le cycle de Doha n’aboutira pas à un accord global tel qu’on pouvait l’imaginer à son lancement il y a 12 ans. L’OMC n’a pas réussi à s’imposer comme enceinte pertinente pour redéfinir les règles du commerce mondial et les négociations de la Conférence ministérielle qui se...

We revisit competitiveness issues using recent data and show that the global financial crisis has taken a toll on European producers that before 2007 were maintaining their market positions. The EU competitiveness in goods has recently deteriorated, even in the upper and high-tech segments of...

Thinking of how the relative sizes of countries and how the geography of world production and trade will be affected in the long run must be based on sound economic reasoning about the determinants of long term growth. It must also be embedded in a general equilibrium framework that takes...

Negotiators may reach a trade deal on a limited series of issues WTO Ministerial Conference in Bali (3–6 December 2013), one of these being trade facilitation. Based on a quantitative assessment taking into account the detail of the last proposals circulated, we argue however that the design...

This paper investigates how tariff liberalization has affected exporting in emerging countries. We use a highly disaggregated (6 digit level of the harmonized system – HS – classification) bilateral measure of market access to compare tariffs applied in 1996 and 2006, which includes the...

In this Blueprint, Lionel Fontagné, Thierry Mayer and Gianmarco Ottaviano, show that trade flows have not increased meaningfully since the introduction of the euro. However, trade volume can be a misleading yardstick. Other obstacles Â? be it differences in regulation, legal framework, taxes...

[eng] Intermediate products, which constitute the bulk of international trade, have been studied in the pure theory of international trade only since 30 years. The introduction of such products in models of specialization has given the opportunity to identify theoretical weaknesses of the...

[fre] Les doutes quant à l'optimalité de la zone euro, du point de vue des critères de définition des zones monétaires optimales, s'appuient notamment sur la forte asymétrie structurelle entre le cœur et la périphérie d'Euroland. A l'opposé du rapport Emerson, défendant l'idée selon...