The study's first section introduces the economic and legal constraints complicating the budgetary mathematics that all European countries are facing today, while demonstrating the challenges of applying current budgetary and fiscal doctrine in the draft bills that are currently making their way...

Bouthevillain and Quinet discuss the adjustment for the effects of fluctuations in the inflation rate. The paper points out the problems that arise in the measurement of these effects, especially because the impact of price changes may considerably differ according to whether they are expected...

We estimate a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model of the French economy. The econometric method originates in Blanchard and Perotti [Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2002] but owes also extensively to the fiscal theory of the price level (FTPL) that investigates the interactions between...

Facing the ambition of a genuine ecological tax system, in part one, we review the legal constraints resulting from international treaties or constitutional blocks that have delayed the creation of a carbon tax. We also assess the current position of existing tax arrangements, ranging from the...