This paper studies a customs union agreement when governments are subject to the pressure of special interest groups that have better information about the competitiveness of the industries they represent. We focus on the agreement’s effect on the structure of political influence. When joining...

We study the impact of transnational terrorism diffusion on security and trade. We set a simple theoretical model predicting that the closer a country to a source of terrorism, the higher the negative spillovers on its trade. The idea is that security measures, which impede trade, are directed...

The dark side of preferential trade agreements, Rules of Origin (RoO) are used to determine the eligibility of goods to preferential treatment. Ostensibly meant to prevent the trans-shipment of imported products across Free Trade Agreement borders after superficial screwdriver assembly, they act...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss how regional integration processes may contribute to statebuilding and promote exit from fragility for countries characterised by weak state institutions. After presenting a simple conceptual framework to discuss the effects of external and regional...

[eng] Massive privatisation and macroeconomics : a theoretical model of a small open economy. . Most of the theoretical research on privatisation analyses the microeconomic-efficiency aspects of public sector divestitures. However, mass privatisation calls for the study of the macroeconomic...

[fre] La structure industrielle dans une course au brevet avec coûts fixes et coûts variables. . Dans cet article, on étudie un modèle de course au brevet qui intègre explicitement des coûts fixes et des coûts variables dans la technologie de R&D. On obtient des résultats qui...

[fre] Le modèle présenté dans cet article est basé sur l'idée que l'éducation augmente la productivité et la participation politique des citoyens. Une oligarchie capitaliste est supposée détenir initialement le pouvoir dans une économie en développement où la masse des travailleurs...

[fre] Recent developments in political economy of growth: a short survey. . In this paper, we survey the recent literature in Political Economy of Growth and Inequalities. We develop a simple framework to illustrate the "classical" elements of a model of Political Economy of Growth and to...