In 2002 we published a paper in which we used state space time series methods to analyse the teenage employment-federal minimum wage relationship in the US (Bazen and Marimoutou, 2002). The study used quarterly data for the 46 year period running from 1954 to 1999. We detected a small, negative...

In 2002 we published a paper in which we used state space time series methods to analyse the teenage employment‐federal minimum wage relationship in the US (Bazen and Marimoutou, 2002). The study used quarterly data for the 46 year period running from 1954 to 1999. We detected a small,...

[eng] Problems of measurement of the credibility of an exchange rate target zone. . Recent breakthroughs in the theory of exchange rate target zones have not been followed by similar contributions on the empirical side. Most of the estimates of expected depre­ciation inside the band do not take...

In the quasi-federal democratic polity that India has, lobbying for central funds by the states is often done in a subliminal fashion. Hence, it becomes difficult to get an account of how much lobbying has been done to a particular end. Our paper attempts at constructing certain political proxy...

The paper attempts to construct political influence variables and explain discrepancies in fund disbursement through proper econometric specification in the Indian context.

[eng] The effects of interest rate changes in the new french financial environment. We study to what extent the effects of changes in short and long term interest rates on the components of aggregate demand were modified in France by financial deregulation in the mid-eighties. The use of a...

[fre] Les fondamentaux permettent-ils d'améliorer la prévision du taux de change franc-dollar ? . . Nous étudions dans quelle mesure on peut mettre en évidence une relation de long terme entre le taux de change quotidien franc-dollar au comptant et certains fondamentaux tels que les taux...