This paper examine at the meso and macro level the institutional and economic elements determining success and failure of global retailers abroad trough the trajectories of Wal-Mart and Carrefour. Three kind of explanations are considered : the time and modalities of entry and development, the...

Since 2002 Russian metallurgical firms have been investing abroad. Taking advantage of the very positive economic climate in the sector, they settle in peripheral as well as in core countries of the world economy. Russia has upgraded from the 50th to the 24th rank between 1995 and 2004 as far as...

This paper examines the institutional and economic factors determining success and failure of global retailers abroad through the trajectories of Wal-Mart and Carrefour. Three kinds of explanations are considered : the time and modalities of entry and development, the factors that allow the...

This article is about the heterogeneity of "emerging economies" and their different development processes, followed by the analysis of the new international division of labor emerging with their boom, the strong growth and the rapid pace of industrialization of several Asian countries, the...

The article examines the sensibility of economic growth to macroeconomic volatility, and the impact of financial development on volatility for a sample of 85 countries and OECD countries over two periods covering 1975 to 2006. In that purpose, we implented nonstationary panel techniques that...

The reduction of global imbalances observed during the climax of crisis is incomplete. In this context, currencies realignments are still proposed to ensure global macroeconomic stability. These realignments are based on equilibrium rates derived from equilibrium exchange rate models. Among...

This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by foreign pensions decrease the Gini index by nearly 4 %...

One observes a tendency to the increase in the middle class whatever the criterion of membership adopted. However the criteria of membership of the middle class are far from achieving the unanimity in the economists and the importance of the middle class varies according to authors'. With a...

In this paper we use the notion of distributable surplus, introduced by Allais (1943) and Luenberger (1992), to evaluate the capacity of European countries to repay their debts. In our analysis, we use Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models to simulate di erent policies that can be...

The euro zone crisis illustrates the insufficiency of adjustment mechanisms in a monetary union characterized by a large heterogeneity. Firstly, the paper gives an evaluation of exchange rate misalignments inside the euro zone, using a FEER approach (Jeong, Mazier and Saadaoui, 2010). Using...