Institute

Univesrité Libre de Btuxelles

Country: Belgium

Institute type: University

FEMISE Institute: yes

Areas research expertise

• Macroeconomic Policy
• Firms
• Trade International Agreements
• EuroMed Cooperation
• Governance and Institutions
• Industrial Policy
• International Trade (tariff and non-tariff policy agreements value chains)
• Regional Integration
• Foreign Direct Investment
• Migration

Participation in FEMISE-funded research: %s

Last publications

Book: “Market Dynamics and Productivity in Developing Countries: Economic Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa”, (Edited), Springer, 2010

Papers: "Exchange rate regimes and trade prices : Does the EMS matter ?" (with A. Sapir), Journal of International Economics, February 1995, pp. 75-95.
"Exchange Rate Management and Manufactured Exports in Sub-Saharan Africa", (with A. Varoudakis), Journal of Development Economics, February 2000, pp. 237-255.
"Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of growth? ", (with Pierre-Guillaume Méon), Public Choice, Vol 122, No 1-2, 2005, pp. 69–97.
"Economic obstacles to expanding intra-African Trade", (with Roberto Longo), World Development, August 2004, pp 1309-1321.
“Efficiency gains from liberalizing labor mobility”, (with F. Docquier and J. Machado), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2015, 117: 2, pp. 303–346.
“The formal and informal institutional framework of capital accumulation”, (with P-G Méon), Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43, pp. 754–771.