Tresor-Economics No. 95 - International trade integration and consumer prices in Europe, 1998-2008
By encouraging economies to specialize in sectors where they enjoy a comparative advantage, globalization has helped restrain price rises for many goods. In most of the OECD countries this effect has been relatively modest on the overall consumer price index (some 0 to ¼ of a percentage point annually since 2000) but it has proved to be far greater for goods widely traded in the international mark... Lire la suite