MIRAGE is a multi-region, multi-sector computable general equilibrium model, devoted to trade policy analysis. It incorporates imperfect competition, product differentiation by variety and by quality, and foreign direct investment, in a sequential dynamic set-up where installed capital is...

Tariff harmonization in the UEMOA (WAMU) at the beginning of 2000 will lead to an increase of tariffs in Benin. Based on a CGE model, this paper simulates the impact of this reform on Benin. We focus our model on the cross-border trade between Benin and Nigeria. We consider that cross-border...

Textbook in international trade and international macroeconomics. 5th edition

The article verifies that the French public opinion is more hostile to globalization than most of the other countries. The political cleavage between the left and the right wings is inadequate because the French conservatives inherit from a heavy mercantilist tradition. In the European Union,...

This chapter of a collective book surveys the theories of the political economy of protectionism. For these theories the degree of protection of a country is mainly linked to the pressions of producers on the political power, through votes or lobbying.