As France works out its plan to tackle climate change issues, questions are arising in the forest sector as to how sectoral mitigation programs such as those designed to enhance fuelwood consumption or to stimulate in-forest carbon sequestration may coincide with an inter-sectoral program such...

Domestic and foreign forest products consumptions are considered imperfectly substitutable in the French Forest Sector Model (FFSM). This assumption is justified by product heterogeneities that depend on production places, by the consumers habits or by the market structure. It leads us to...

[eng] Measuring Productivity Using Distance Functions by Ahmed Barkaoui, Jean-Christophe Bureau and Jean-Pierre Butault . Productivity measures are highly sensitive to the conventions adopted to measure service flows and fixed factor utilisation costs. An approach based on distance functions can...

[fre] Dans cet article, l'impact des projets de réforme de la PAC de 1'" Agenda 2000 " sur l'offre en grandes cultures est simulé, à l'horizon 2005, pour l'Union Européenne. Cette simulation repose sur une modélisation de l'offre, au niveau des régions européennes, par la méthode de "...

The effects of a transatlantic trade agreement on the global forest sector were assessed with the Global Forest Products Model, conditional on previous macroeconomic impacts predicted with a general equilibrium model. Comprehensive tariff elimination per se had little effect on the forest...

Domestic and foreign forest products consumptions are considered imperfectly substitutable in the French Forest Sector Model (FFSM). This assumption is justified by product heterogeneities that depend on production places, by the consumers habits or by the market structure. It leads us to...

[eng] An Economic Assessment of the June 2003 Common Agricultural Policy Reform. The main innovation of the June 2003 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform is to replace most market aids by a single direct payment per farm disconnected from production choices and levels (decoupling process),...

[eng] Meuse agriculture modelling and "agenda 2000" . We simulate the effects of the European Commission's proposals for reforming the CAP, called the « Agenda 2000 » on the agriculture of the Meuse département, in France. This simulation is based on analytical economic accounts of a sample...