The paper deals with the links between goods and services exports. First it explains the reasons why services exports are presumably connected with manufacturing exports and altogether to goods exports. The paper scruti-nises the various headings of the services account of the BOP. It points out...

The paper focuses on the impact of the Full Market Opening in postal services especially on prices. The paper first summons up the specificities of the sector and the deregulation implemented so far. The paper then studies the consequences on separated prices and the survival of the historical...

L’article s’intéresse aux effets prévisibles de la Directive Services. En premier lieu il étudie les trois manières d’interpréter l’expression commerce de services : celle des Comptes nationaux, celle de la Balance des Transactions Courantes et celle de la Directive. En deuxième...

Après avoir brièvement rappelé les raisons par lesquelles la théorie économique justifie traditionnellement le recours au péage urbain, l’article examine les principaux éléments qui expliquent les résistances des agents économiques, afin d’en comprendre les fondements économiques....

The two new manuals of the National Accounts (SNA 2009) and of the Balance of Payments (IMF 2009) are implementing many new features that protract innovations firstly introduced in 1993. Among those, the paper focuses on the treatment of non financial services. The first section of the paper...

Cet article présente une perspective d’économiste sur les contours de la prestation de services, dans la perspective du commerce de services. Il est l’occasion de faire un tour d’horizon rapide des connaissances disponibles sur le commerce de services dans l’Union Européenne (UE). Il...

Based on a gravity analysis, the paper shows that there is a significant relationship between goods and services exports, at least as they are measured in the current account of the BOP. Truly enough several recent works have already, but incidentally, shed some light on this issue. The paper is...

The paper focuses on the issue of cross-border trade in services. It argues that its current understanding may be quite misleading. First, bearing in mind Hill?s [1999] services definition, the paper discusses the extent of services-producing activities. It stresses that ?services? exporting...

La crise des subprimes qui s’est prolongée par une crise budgétaire et des dettes souveraines a révélé les défauts de construction de la zone Euro. Les chefs de gouvernements sous l’impulsion, notamment de l’Allemagne, ont adopté une série de mesures pour « renforcer la...

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