Depuis le milieu des années soixante-dix la France a connu, comme d’ailleurs ses partenaires d’Europe continentale, une décélération continue de la croissance, à l’exception de la brève reprise de la fin des années quatre-vingt. Quelle est la part des facteurs d’offre et de...

This is a Chinese translation of ""Rethinking Macro Policy II"" (SDN/13/03). This note explores how the economic thinking about macroeconomic management has evolved since the crisis began. It discusses developments in monetary policy, including unconventional measures; the challenges associated...

En esta nota se examina cómo ha evolucionado el pensamiento económico con respecto a la gestión macroeconómica desde que se inició la crisis. Se analizan la evolución de la política monetaria, en particular las medidas no convencionales; los desafíos asociados al aumento de la deuda...

The purpose of this lecture is to look beyond the complex events that characterize the global financial and economic crisis, identify the basic mechanisms, and infer the policies needed to resolve the current crisis, as well as the policies needed to reduce the probability of similar events in...

In this paper, I investigate US post war price, wage and employment dynamics by identifying and estimating a price and a wage equation. I reach the following two main conclusions: Nominal wages adjust faster to prices than prices do to nominal wages. This may be taken as evidence that price...

This paper rehabilitates the old wage price spiral. It shows that, after an increase in aggregate demand, the process of adjustment of nominal prices and nominal wages results from attempts by workers to maintain or increase their real wage and by firms to maintain or increase their markups of...

Many issues in macroeconomics, such as the level of the steady state interest rate, or the dynamic effects of government deficit finance, depend crucially on the horizon of economic agents. This paper develops a simple analytical model in which such issues can be examined and in which the...