La mondialisation des économies contemporaines est généralement associée à une augmentation de la pression concurrentielle subie par les firmes. Théoriquement, cet accroissement de la concurrence internationale force les entreprises à réduire leurs marges et mène à un bien-être...

Cet article étudie la relation entre le taux d’emploi des seniors, la structure productive et l’accélération du progrès technique. L’existence d’une relation entre taux d’emploi et structure productive repose sur deux hypothèses. La première est que l’évolution de la...

L’évolution des productions des industries de haute technologie montre un écart croissant, à partir de la seconde moitié des années 1990, entre la zone euro et les États-Unis, en faveur de ces derniers. En revanche, le niveau des exportations est quasiment identique actuellement. Le...

Notre méthodologie empirique repose sur la spécification de Knetter (1993) : comme le taux de marge et le coût marginal ne peuvent être observés, cette spécification empirique permet de saisir, par un jeu complet de dummies temporelles, tous les mouvements communs aux prix des produits...

The China - Raw Materials dispute recently arbitrated by the WTO opposed China as defendant to the US and the EU as claimants, on the somewhat unusual issue of export restrictions. For the claimants, Chinese export restrictions on various raw materials of which the country is a major producer...

This book addresses the foundations of economic growth at the firm level, combining both theoretical and econometric contributions by established scholars. Challenging contributions revisit Marshall’s view on the management of innovation, investigate the decision of firms to venture into...

This unique Handbook explores both the economics of the firm and the theory of the firm, two areas which are traditionally treated separately in the literature. On the one hand, the former refers to the structure, organization and boundaries of the firm, while the latter is devoted to the...

The China-Raw Materials dispute recently arbitrated by the WTO opposed China as defendant to the US, the EU and Mexico as the claimants on the somewhat unusual issue of export restrictions on natural resources. For the claimants, Chinese export restrictions on various raw materials, of which the...

We investigate the effects of the establishment of the euro on the markups of French manufacturing firms. Merging firm-level census data with customs data, we estimate time-varying firm-specific markups and distinguish between eurozone exporters from other firms between 1995 and 2007. We find...