This paper examines the socio-economic status of the members of Switzerland's third language community - and hence its second largest linguistic community. Our goal is to check if a minority status in a demolinguistic sense is associated, in the case of Italian-speakers, with a divergence from...

In this paper, a spatial (circular) model is used to endogenously determine product locations and prices when consumers have an elastic (linear) demand with a finite reservation price. I show that a symmetric two-stage Bertrand-Nash equilibrium requires maximal product differentiation....

This paper extends the influence-driven model of trade policy determination to include general equilibrium effets on the supply side resulting from labour-market interaction and intermediate goods. The model's predictions for the structure of protection are related to underlying taste and...

Alors que la premiere vague d'interet sur les problemes environnementaux avait trait a la pollution dans les pays industrialises, la seconde vague s'est plus largement penchee sur les implications environnementales du commerce Nord-Sud. Dans une premiere partie, ce papier reprend les arguments...