Trade in quality has become a dominant economic phenomenon in Europe since the 1990s (Fontagné, Freudenberg, Peridy, 1998). Increasingly, European countries trade in similar products which vary in quality and variety, making quality an important determinant of trade within these countries. This...

This paper propose an assessment for European Commission 'Package of Implementation measures for the EU's objectives on climate change and renewable energy for 2020', that was agreed the 23 January 2008. The policy assessment uses macroeconomic modeling tools: NEMESIS economic macro-econometric...

The current deliverable report has been prepared in the framework of PLUREL Work Package 1.1 (Economic Scenarios) by Paris 1 Université - Lab. ERASME. The implementation of four scenarios for the PLUREL project allows the description of a range of possible futures in order to evaluate...

This report has been prepared in the framework of PLUREL Work Package 1.1 (Economic Scenarios) by Paris 1 Université - Lab. ERASME. This document presents four medium-term scenarios for the European economy at both national and NUTS-2 levels. These scenarios are based on assumptions on the main...

In this contribution, we present an assessment, in terms of growth, employment and competitiveness, of the European Union Member States RTD policies in late 2004, the National Action Plans (NAP). The assessment in this paper is based on the results of a detailed macro-econometric model NEMESIS...

In respect to GHG emission reduction targets set in the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, an emission quotas trading system will be implemented among the Annex-1 participating countries to lower the mitigation costs of the international cooperation on climate change issue. Nonetheless, in the way the...

[fre] Effets globaux de l'exotaxe européenne. . L'objet de cette étude est d'analyser d'un point de vue global les effets de la proposition de la Commission européenne d'une taxe mixte sur l'énergie et le contenu en carbone, pour réduire les émissions de CO2. Les effets de cette...

[fre] Les récessions sont-elles productives ? Une approche en termes de coût d'opportunité. . Cet article présente, à l'aide d'un modèle simple, une recherche récente sur les interactions entre fluctuations et croissance qui insiste particulièrement sur le rôle des activités de...

[eng] Rate of exchange strategy and accompanying measures of economic policy. . In this study the authors have established with French Medium Term econometric model DMS an assesment of economic policy measures necessaries to get a successful devaluation in order to avoid increasing the deficit...