Notre recherche se situe dans le cadre des modèles d'analyse du secteur et des instruments de régulation applicables aux réseaux à fortes innovations technologiques, notamment ceux des nouveaux services de télécommunications. La nature même de ces services les rend, en effet, susceptibles...

Despite the liberalization of capital flows among OECD countries, equity home bias remains sizable. We depart from the two familiar explanations of equity home bias: transaction costs that impede international diversification, and terms of trade responses to supply shocks that provide risk...

The ACPs should take an initiative—a ‘Plan A+’. The note explores what could be envisaged in the Doha Round context. The ACP could offer a better access to their markets to the non-EU WTO Members for being allowed by these countries to limit the forthcoming preferential liberalization...

The EC should position itself as a WTO Member with a long term view of the world trade regime. Assuming responsibility for the future relevance of the world trading system is a sign of leadership. Europe implicitly assumes that future rounds of trade negotiations will follow after a successful...

La fusion de General Electric/Honeywell a été souvent exagéré. Ni les différences de procédures ni les différences de doctrines entre les deux organismes en grande partie autonomes qui décident dans ce type d'affaires ne semblent être une source récurrente de conflit. En général,...

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Even though the EU clearly leads the global fight against climate change and despite the additional reduction in emissions due to the global crisis and European recession, the ambitious objectives flagged in the ‘‘20-20-20 by 2020’’ strategy and ‘climate-energy package’ may be out of...

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This paper aims at giving a theoretical background to the, some- times observed, puzzling inverse correlation between the degree of de- centralization and economic growth. We provide evidence that there is some interaction between decentralization and corruption in ex- plaining growth. Within an...

The Uruguay Round Negotiating Groups on countervailing and antidumping procedures share many common issues. This is not accidental, claims this paper, but mirrors the way import-competing firms have become the driving force of antidumping and countervailing procedures set up under the Tokyo...