The consequences on international trade of country breaks-up have received an increasing attention. This paper investigates the effect of independence on bilateral trade of former French colonies with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. Thanks to an original dataset including data on pre-independence...

We examine the response of technological change to one of the major environmental regulations in the European Union (EU) - the Ambient Air Quality Directive (AAQD). Our identification strategy exploits the structure of this directive, which imposes air quality measures in regions exceeding...

U.S. states with a high level of trust specialize in industries that involve more complex input-output relationships. This specialization pattern is not driven by differences in the states' and industries' other observable characteristics. While it is possible that specialization in complex...

La problematique de l'integration monetaire s'est longtemps inseree dans le debat entre regimes de change fixes et flexibles. L'article publie en 2000 par Andrew Rose ouvre de nouvelles voies pour la recherche en mettant l'accent sur l'impact macroeconomique des unions monetaires. Il montre que...