In an endogenous tariff setting, the entry of foreign-owned capital has ambiguous effects on the level of protection. In the presence of trade-promoting and trade-neutral foreign capital, lobbying pressures for a higher tariff are lower whereas if foreign capital is trade-substituting,...

Cet article propose un modele simple de croissance endogene en presence de recherche et developpement (R-D) publique et de R-D privee base sur le modele a variete de biens intermediaires de Barro et Sala- i-Martin. Il procede ensuite a une analyse comparative de deux instruments de la politique...

This paper reviews the epistemological and methodological underpinnings of economic approaches to language issues, and proposes a definition of the economics of language as a field of research in its own right. It also introduces the contributions gathered in a special issue of the...

In second-best environmental policies, nonconvexities arise because of decreasing marginal pollution abatement costs. In this case, we chow that, unlike tradeable permits, taxes may introduce incorrect incentives. Moreover, even when taxes lead to efficient solutions, the tax rate should not be...

Using an extension of the influence-driven lobbying approach developed by Grossman and Helpman, we study the impact of regional trading arrangements (RIAS) on trade policy towards non-members in a three-good, three-country model.

This paper uses a price-leadership model of the international vanilla market to study the welfare consequences of alternative pricing policies for Madagascar, the leader in the vanilla market, that also controls domestic production through a single-channel marketing system.

Bhagwati and Brecher (1980) showed that when the relative amount of foreign-owned factors in the host country is sufficiently large as to induce a change in the direction of the trade pattern, immiserising tariff reductions may occur. Here it is shown that in the mirror case when foreign-owned...

La premiere partie de ce texte examine les conditions analytiques sous lesquelles on peut attribuer une valeur a une langue ou une autre, en distinguant notamment les valeurs privee et sociale, marchande et non-marchande. La seconde partie illustre la premiere a l'aide d'une estimation de la...

Partant du constat d'un interet croissant de notre societe pour des questions d'ethique economique, cette contribution en explore quelques causes principales, allant des simples strategies de marketing jusqu'a des mutations profondes intervenues dans le tissu economique.

This paper develops a Cournot duopoly in which a domestic firm competes with a technologically more advanced foreign-owned firm on the home market.