In order to analyze conflict and cooperation between a State and a non ruling group in a general equilibrium, I unite pure rent-seeking models and economic models of conflict under an assumption of property rights incompleteness. I show that a unique and globally stable Nash equilibrium exists...

This paper studies the degree of integration of China’s domestic market and investigates the determinants of inter-provincial trade barriers in light of endogenous trade policy theory. I rely on a new set of provincial trade ows to develop a model which analyzes the magnitude and evolution of...

In this paper, basing on panel data on Chinese provincial level from 1991-2000, we test, firstly, the existence of EKC for industrial SO2 emission density. Following, we decompose the economical determinants of this SO2 emission density into: income effect (GDPPC), scale effect (Industrial GDP...

Les gouvernements des pays en développement et les intermédiaires commerciaux positionnés le long des filières agricoles d'exportation jouent un rôle déterminant dans la transmission des chocs de prix mondiaux aux producteurs. Les mécanismes d'intervention sur les prix peuvent en effet...

Le remarquable taux de croissance de l’économie chinoise lui a permis d’être sans doute l’un des rares pays en voie de développement à se situer dans une logique de rattrapage par rapport aux pays développés. Elle a ainsi pu faire fortement diminuer la grande pauvreté et les...

Observing the weakness in the previous structural analyses on EKC formation, in this paper, author deepens the analysis into the detailed data of production and SO2 emission intensity of China’s 29 industrial sectors (occupying over 98% of the total industrial production) in each province...

In this paper, we investigate the impact of natural resource rent on public expenditure composition. Our hypothesis is that, when institutional quality is low, politicians have more discretionary power on the allocation of public resources. Then public expenditure composition tends to be...

Since 1993, the prospects of intra-regional trade in West Africa have been strongly debated. Foroutan and Pritchett (1993) explain the low level of trade between Sub-Saharan African countries by structural factors. In opposite, Naudet (1993) shows that trade growth potential is important between...

Cet article cherche tout d'abord à mettre en évidence l'existence d'une incitation à exporter et importer en fraude. La méthode d'analyse part d'un modèle simple, sans fraude, expliquant les exportations officielles par les taux de change officiel et libre, le taux de rétention des...

We examine whether absorptive capacity represents a valid reason to reject the proposal of a large aid increase in order to help poor countries to move out of the underdevelopment trap. We consider absorptive capacity, the set of limits to an effective use of aid inflows, under for main aspects:...