The accession of Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries to the European Union (EU) is expected to lead to the new member countries becoming more like the older members, including in terms of trade. In this paper, we focus on two factors promoting CEE–EU trade integration: trade...

In this paper the author discusses the fact that economists define optimal IP rights as a continuum of options in three dimensions: height, breadth and length. At the operational level he discusses the impossibility of multiplying rights indefinitely (due to prohibitive transaction costs), as...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a new model allowing the implementation of a benchmarking process that jointly measure the efficiency of franchise chains and determine their optimal organizational form. The methodology is based on a non-econometric technique developed by management...

Les changements importants intervenus au niveau de l'economie mondiale ont eu un impact majeur sur la configuration du secteur agro-alimentaire. Cet article cherche a mettre en evidence les determinants les plus importants des changements structurels, au niveau du comportement du marche en...

A puzzle in the literature on the formation of coalitions supporting International Environmental Agreements (IEAs) is that if an IEA leads to substantial gains, then it will not be supported by many countries. The non-cooperative game theoretic literature highlights the “small...