[eng] This paper seeks to evaluate the impact of environmental regulations on French firms’ locations choices for industrial activities. Our study of a sample of 3,856 import flows yields a paradoxical finding : a relatively larger share of the most pollution-intensive goods is imported from...

This paper investigates the impact of environmental regulations on the location choices made by firms for their industrial activities, using a sample of newly appeared imports of French firms from foreign industrial subsidiaries. A simple static model based on the production cost minimization is...

[eng] An Economic Analysis of Tax Competition The question of tax competition is of great importance for France, generally considered as poorly rated in this competition. The first part of this paper examines the messages delivered by the theoretical literature on tax competition. These messages...