As in many other developed countries, international relocations are currently a very hot topic in France. This can be readily concluded from the number of articles devoted by the French newspapers to this subject in 2004, compared to the preceding years (Table 1). A heated debate already took...

This paper studies the characteristics of investment in the slave trade and other long distance trades in France during the eighteenth century. After justifying why the slave trade should be aggregated with other long distance trades for this study, the paper introduces French data. Information...

For nearly two decades, the share of trade in inputs, also called vertical trade, has dramatically increased. This paper suggests a new measure of international trade: “value-added trade”. Like many existing estimates, “value-added trade” is net of double-counted vertical trade. It also...

Le 30 juin a expiré la loi donnant à Georges Bush le droit de présenter au Congrès les accords commerciaux sans que celui-ci puisse discuter de chaque article individuellement (special trade authority). La majorité démocrate ne l’a bien sûr pas renouvelée. Beaucoup voient là un...

This paper surveys the rise and fall of the European mercantilist system, and the transition to the modern, well-integrated international economy of the 19th century. It also surveys the literature on the links between trade and economic growth during the period, and on the economic effects of...

Plus d’un enfant sur vingt ne survit pas jusqu’à l’âge d’un an. Presque un milliard de personnes sont entrées dans le XXIe siècle sans être capables de lire. 80 % de la population mondiale doivent se partager 15 % des biens que nous sommes capables de produire. Les habitants des...

We evaluate the impact of reimbursement rates on health expenditures, using a natural experiment. For historical reasons, reimbursement rates of public health insurance are higher in the French region Alsace Moselle than in other French regions. For both systems, affiliation is compulsory....

La crise financière, déclenchée par la faillite de la banque Lehman Brothers fin 2008 est derrière nous, comme l’indique l’apaisement des marchés financiers. Pour autant, la crise n’est pas encore terminée. La croissance prévue en 2010-2011 ne permettra pas de retrouver le niveau...

Cet article évalue l’impact macroéconomique et sectoriel d’une taxe carbone en France en utilisant le modèle Three-ME qui combine deux caractéristiques importantes pour cette analyse. (1) Le modèle possède une structure sectorielle détaillée avec une fine description du système...

How does the US labor market absorb low-skilled immigration? I address this question using the 1995 Mexican Peso Crisis, an exogenous push factor that raised Mexican migration to the US. In the short run, high-immigration states see their low-skilled labor force increase and native low-skilled...