La décision projet de taxe carbone peut du Conseil constitutionnel censurant le difficilement être considérée comme une bonne nouvelle. Le risque est en effet grand qu’elle ne conduise in fine à une plus mauvaise loi que celle qui fut soumise à son examen. Nous tentons dans cette lettre...

The “Doha Round” may be finished in 2011, more than ten years after having been officially launched.2 A detailed description of the negotiations over such a long period goes far beyond the scope of a chapter, and would require a book.3 Rather, this chapter focuses on the four key questions...

International trade flows of cultural goods have grown rapidly over the last decades and their liberalization will be an important issue of future multilateral trade negotiations. In this paper, we focus on bilateral trade in cultural goods and investigate its determinants. Furthermore, we use...

This article tests whether smaller domestic markets can explain why France industrialized more slowly than Britain. To do so, it uses the Tableaux du Maximum. It begins by presenting this source and then checks if the data from the source are plausible using a logit theoretical gravity equation....

It is widely recognized that forecasting future climate shocks at a regional level̶which regions will be flooded, which ones will be under water stress on a year by year basis̶is largely out of reach. In such circumstances, trade gets back a role that has faded away during the last sixty years...

Depuis un an, l’économie mondiale s’est engagée sur la voie du redressement, après un choc récessif d’une ampleur sans précédent dans la période contemporaine. Les difficultés budgétaires de certains pays en zone euro ont déclenché une nouvelle crise financière au printemps...

The European Community (the correct legal term in trade matters, hereafter EC) is still a recent and ongoing process. Fifty years is a short time span for such an endeavour (Annex I lists the 17 Treaties that have formed its legal basis).3 It is strictly an economic process because a straight...

Les années de préparation et d’installation de l’euro ont été des années de croissance faible ou médiocre dans les grands pays de la zone. Cette performance décevante est, souvent, attribuée aux défaillances des marchés de biens et du travail et, par suite, à l’insuffisante...

In response to climate change, many electric utilities introduce pricing schemes to induce their customers to consume less electricity. When a significant portion of the consumer population finds it more costly to economize electricity, one would expect utilities to offer incentives in return...

A simple procedure to map two probability measures in Rd is the so-called Knothe-Rosenblatt rearrangement, which consists in rearranging monotonically the marginal distributions of the last coordinate, and then the conditional distributions, iteratively. We show that this mapping is the limit of...