This paper tests the relationship between climate and trade of agricultural products in MENA countries, using bilateral data disaggregated at product level. The model includes gravity control variables and addresses the selection bias with disaggregated production variables in a Heckman two-step...

This paper provides a first quantitative assessment of the migration potential involving the enlarged EU and its new neighbors. Based on new theoretical developments in migration theories, it develops an empirical model which highlights the main migration determinants in the EU. As a next step,...

The USA has recently launched new trans-ocean free trade initiatives with Australia, the ASEAN, the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), as well as Middle-East and North African (MENA) countries. This paper provides the first comparative estimation of trade and FDI potentials between the USA...

This paper provides a first quantitative assessment of the migration potential involving the enlarged EU and its new neighbors. Based on new theoretical developments in migration theories, it develops an empirical model which highlights the main migration determinants in the EU. As a next step,...

The USA has recently launched new trans-ocean free trade initiatives with Australia, the ASEAN, the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), as well as Middle-East and North African (MENA) countries. This paper provides the first comparative estimation of trade and FDI potentials between the USA...

This paper focuses on the innovation gap between countries in the Euro-Mediterranean (Euromed) area and its implications in terms of growth and convergence. Using a large set of innovation variables, we estimate a growth model à la Barro which shows that differences in innovation between...