This paper questions whether the overseas expansion of a country’s retailers fosters overall bilateral exports towards these host markets. To address this question, we consider an empirical trade model, where the foreign sales of multinational retailers reduce the fixed and variable trade...

We revisit competitiveness issues using recent data and show that the global financial crisis has taken a toll on European producers that before 2007 were maintaining their market positions. The EU competitiveness in goods has recently deteriorated, even in the upper and high-tech segments of...

Protectionist instruments such as tariffs can distort the prices of traded goods. This paper explores the impact of specific (per-unit) duties on patterns of agricultural trade. Specific duties may encourage countries to export higher priced products, leading to an “Alchian-Allen effect” on...

One of the most striking features of the crisis that started during the fall of 2008 has been the sharp decrease in the world volume of trade in goods. The collapse of trade values has been even larger, leading to a decrease of import price indices. We argue that the decrease of import price...

Trade unit values are commonly used as proxies for trade prices in empirical research in international economics. Existing datasets providing international trade unit values for a large number of countries typically suffer from a number of statistical biases, due to the aggregation of unit...

The current crisis revealed the threat posed by current account imbalances on the very existence of the euro area. In the absence of a federal response, national rebalancing efforts will be needed. Two adjustment strategies seem at hand: external or internal devaluation. The Latvian and Irish...

Cet article analyse, à l’aide d’un modèle de gravité, le rôle des protections tarifaires par rapport aux autres obstacles rencontrés par les pays méditerranéens qui exportent des fruits et légumes sur le marché européen. Deux estimations du modèle de gravité ont été...

In this paper, we explore the link between globalization of the retail sector and the export activity of firms from their origin country. In a previous paper (Cheptea, Emlinger and Latouche, forthcoming), we showed that exporting firm from countries with internationalized retail companies...

La saturation des marchés domestiques ainsi que l'ouverture et la croissance des marchés émergents ont amené les enseignes de la grande distribution européenne et américaine à s'internationaliser. Ce phénomène, en pleine expansion, a un effet d'entraînement sur le commerce de produits...

Un quart de notre consommation de biens porte sur des biens en provenance des pays de délocalisation et permettent au consommateur final de réaliser des gains de pouvoir d'achat substantiels, par rapport à l'achat de produits équivalents Made in France. Nous évaluons ces gains potentiels de...