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European Integration, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), and the Geography of French Trade

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  • Miren Lafourcade

    (RITM - Réseaux Innovation Territoires et Mondialisation - Université Paris-Saclay)

  • Elisenda Paluzie

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Lafourcade M. and Paluzie E. European integration, foreign direct investment (FDI), and the geography of French trade, Regional Studies. An augmented gravity model is used to investigate whether the 1978-2000 process of European integration has changed the geography of trade within France, with a particular focus on border regions. It is found that once controlled for bilateral distance, origin- and destination-specific characteristics, French border regions trade on average 73% more with neighbouring countries than predicted by the gravity norm. The regions perform even better if they have good transport connections with these countries. However, French border regions at the periphery of Europe experienced a downward trend over the period that was partly due to the decrease in the propensity of Spanish and Italian foreign affiliates to trade with their home countries. [image omitted] Lafourcade M. et Paluzie E. Integration europeenne, investissement direct etranger (IDE) et geographie du commerce francais, Regional Studies. On emploie un modele de gravite augmente afin d'etudier l'impact du processus d'integration europeenne sur la geographie du commerce international des departements francais, au cours de la periode 1978-2000, en pretant une attention particuliere aux departements frontaliers. Il s'avere que ces derniers commercent en moyenne 1.7 fois plus avec le pays limitrophe que ne le predit la norme de gravite, meme si on tient compte de leur proximite relative, de leurs caracteristiques specifiques et de celles du pays de destination. Les departements dotes d'infrastructures de transport transfrontalieres ont une performance encore superieure. Cet avantage s'est cependant erode sur la periode pour les departements francais frontaliers de la peripherie europeenne, en raison du declin de la propension des filiales espagnoles et italiennes a commercer avec leur pays d'origine. Gravite Regions transfrontalieres Investissement direct etranger (IDE) Infrastructu
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  • Miren Lafourcade & Elisenda Paluzie, 2010. "European Integration, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), and the Geography of French Trade," Post-Print hal-04246923, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04246923
    DOI: 10.1080/00343401003713357
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