This article examines the performances of French exporting firms. Using a highly detailed database, we confirm that exporting firms are much bigger, more productive and more profitable than domestic ones. This difference is particularly strong for firms exporting to non-eu markets, and for small...

<alinea/> Creative and talented theorist, Paul Krugman is the main architect of the new theories of international trade. He has shown that international trade can emerge without comparative advantages, in an imperfectly competitive environment. His models have provided convincing explanations to...

This paper provides an empirical investigation of the cohesion versus growth tradeoff on European regions at a fine geographical disaggregation level. We use data on gdp per capita at the nuts3 level for 1980-2000 to estimate the influence of income dispersion within nuts1 on their economic...