The paper deals with the issue of integration and trade of services industries. It argues that the specificities of services producing industries compared to goods producing industries explain several difficulties of the new approach to international trade in services. First, the paper discusses...

This paper deals with a specific institution of the Swiss labour market called the work peace agreement. It notably appeared in 1937 in the machine and metal work industry. First, the paper portrays the characteristics of the agreement and work peace clauses in Switzerland. Second, the paper...

The paper focuses on the impact of the Full Market Opening in postal services especially on prices. The paper first summons up the specificities of the sector and the deregulation implemented so far. The paper then studies the consequences on separated prices and the survival of the historical...

LâUnion Européenne (UE) est entrée dans une phase de négociation sur la future programmation budgétaire 2014-2020. Ces négociations se déroulent dans un climat difficile, à la fois du fait de la crise budgétaire qui frappe la plupart des pays européens, mais aussi...

La crise des subprimes qui sâest prolongée par une crise budgétaire et des dettes souveraines a révélé les défauts de construction de la zone Euro. Les chefs de gouvernements sous lâimpulsion, notamment de lâAllemagne, ont adopté une série de mesures pour « renforcer...

The paper examines the recent extension of price and production statistics to health, social assistance services and education. In the first part of the paper it is emphasised that using net prices instead of gross prices, as for the European harmonised consumer price index, is inaccurate. The...

This article focuses on the impact of the full market opening in postal services on social and territorial cohesion. It recalls the specificities of the sector and the distance so far covered by deregulation. It underlines the reasons that induce worries while analysing the territorial issue in...

The paper deals with the links between goods and services exports. First it explains the reasons why services exports are presumably connected with manufacturing exports and altogether to goods exports. The paper scruti-nises the various headings of the services account of the BOP. It points out...