Export-credit: Mercantilism à la Française

Patrick Messerlin (1)

1 UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12

The French export-credit system (mechanisms, foreign-currency credits, mixed credits), its cost to the public budget, the distortions introduced by subsidised export credits within manufacturing industry. The French export-insurance system (COFACE): costs of export insurance; co-insurance; export-credit subsidies and risk exposure. Conclusion: inefficiency of the system with respect to its goals

Domaines: Economies et finances

Patrick Messerlin. Export-credit: Mercantilism à la Française. The World Economy, 1986, 9 (4), pp.385 - 408. ⟨hal-03607700⟩