We study the pattern of geographic concentration of industries in EU countries and regions between 1972 and 1995. We find that changes in concentration levels were mainly due to industry mobility rather than historical accidents and past levels of concentration as often argued by the New...

This paper analyses empirically the dynamics of regional inequalities in GDP per capita. Our starting hypothesis is that the evolution of regional inequalities should follow a bell-shaped curve depending on the level of national economic development. A number of authors going from Kuznets...

Ce texte vise à différencier la politique de normalisation suivant ses fonctions attendues, la forme des marchés auxquelles elle s'adresse, et les stratégies des firmes qui interviennent sur ces marchés. Cela nous conduira présenter une cartographie de plusieurs modèles de processus...

Après avoir rappelé à grands traits les hypothèses théoriques quant au rôle que joueraient les revenus dans les choix de nuptialité, ainsi que quelques résultats empiriques portant sur le lien entre revenus d'activité et probabilité de divorcer, nous proposons une analyse empirique...

On the European Union scale, international traffic is growing faster than intra-national traffic. This phenomenon is often viewed as a consequence of the abatement of the frontier effect. In this article the frontier effect is analyzed, on the basis of data available for road traffic between...

En 2005, se dessine une Europe du transport routier de marchandises à deux vitesses : l'une dynamique, notamment à l'international, avec les pavillons allemand, espagnol, italien, portugais, des pays baltes, polonais ; l'autre avec les pavillons français, britannique et belge, qui perdent des...

As the growing trade in timber and wood products increasing, it has gained more attention from the main supplier in increasing the export competitiveness of timber and related products. Therefore, countries with large forest resources have an advantage in maximizing the resources in fulfilling...

This paper analyses the side effects of the stricter regulation on tropical hardwood or timber imports. It considers the place of Europe within the global timber market, where Europe accounts only for a very limited share. It also explains the high selectivity of European markets, with its...

Planning and other territorial policies within Europe are more and more dependant upon its relations with the rest of the world. The growing international flows (migrants, trade, investments, polluting agents) interact with the European territories; moreover, the vision the Europeans have of...

Improverail aims are to further support the establishment of railway infrastructure management in accordance with Directive 91/440, as well as the new railway infrastructure directives, by developing the necessary tools for modelling the management of railway infrastructure; by evaluating...