This article incorporates both the new trade and the endogenous growth theories to study the determinants of import volumes of France and Germany so as to explain their individual industrial competitiveness strategies – price or quality competition. This article is different because it studies...

Trade in quality has become a dominant economic phenomenon in Europe since the 1990s (Fontagné, Freudenberg, Peridy, 1998). Increasingly, European countries trade in similar products which vary in quality and variety, making quality an important determinant of trade within these countries. This...

Import price elasticity tends to be under-estimated due to the omission of quality effects. This dissertation aims to fill this gap by analyzing 1) how quality effects affect the estimation of import price elasticity, 2) the impact of quality innovation in the various goods sectors of an economy...

This paper propose an assessment for European Commission 'Package of Implementation measures for the EU's objectives on climate change and renewable energy for 2020', that was agreed the 23 January 2008. The policy assessment uses macroeconomic modeling tools: NEMESIS economic macro-econometric...

The current deliverable report has been prepared in the framework of PLUREL Work Package 1.1 (Economic Scenarios) by Paris 1 Université - Lab. ERASME. The implementation of four scenarios for the PLUREL project allows the description of a range of possible futures in order to evaluate...

This report has been prepared in the framework of PLUREL Work Package 1.1 (Economic Scenarios) by Paris 1 Université - Lab. ERASME. This document presents four medium-term scenarios for the European economy at both national and NUTS-2 levels. These scenarios are based on assumptions on the main...