This paper studies the reasons behind the export performance of different Mexican states from 1994 to 2002. Mexican exports are divided into two components: (1) foreign market potential; and (2) supply capacity. Results suggest that states that experience an increase in supply capacity are, in...

This article studies the location pattern of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Mexico for the period 1994–2004. An empirical model is specified based on recent FDI theories. This model is estimated using state-level data and employing spatial econometric techniques. Results suggest that...

This book describes all features of globalization : trade, foreign direct investment, flows of capital and moneys, international organizations. It gives arguments in favour of globalization and critics against it.

This work aims to study the relationship between the entry to export market and industrial firm productivity in the Tunisian context. At the outset, we analyze Tunisian regulation and fiscal policy system of industrial firms and we focus on Tunisian trade policy during the last decades. In the...

This chapter of a collective book surveys the theories of the political economy of protectionism. For these theories the degree of protection of a country is mainly linked to the pressions of producers on the political power, through votes or lobbying.

Analysis of features and effects of government interventions on international trade

Analysis of the position of the European Union during the WTO Conference of Cancun (2003)

Entry in a dictionnary on data and theories of protection

This text presents the following articles about the World Trade Organisation. It opposes a « liberalist » conception of multilateralism to a cooperative interpretation. The first one stresses the role of the organisation to liberalise the international trade. The second one emphasises its...

Census of data on international trade in services and recommendations for improving methods of measurement of trade between France and foreign countries.