La crise montre, une nouvelle fois, tous les risques que fait courir à l’économie le libre jeu des marchés financiers. Ceux-ci, gérant des masse énormes de capitaux en quête d’une rentabilité maximale (fonds de placement destinés aux ménages les plus riches, fonds de pension des...

This paper proposes a new way for analysing the international trade of intermediaries good. We consider the case of automobile parts with the objective to cross analytic tools from international economics and industrial dynamics. Within the Economy of proximity framework, we propose a method for...

This paper is a survey of the literature about the spatial dynamics of firms. In a first part, we discuss about the traditional theories of location. We review the insights of these theories but also their limits. In particular, we stress the necessity to organize a true dialog between the...

The paper analyses the evolution of the automotive industry in the Mediterranean area during the last years. First part focuses on the impacts for this region of the geographical changes of the European automotive systems associated to location of multinational automotive firms in CEEC. This...