[fre] Les créations nettes d’emplois au Royaume-Uni ont été au cours des vingt dernières années supérieures à celles observées en France, notamment en raison du différentiel de croissance par tête. Le fonctionnement du marché du travail britannique s’avère cependant paradoxal....

This paper studies the impact of globalization on household income inequality and poverty using detailed microdata across Brazilian states from 1987 to 2005. Results suggest that trade liberalization contributes to growth in poverty and inequality in urban areas and may be linked to reductions...

[eng] This paper analyses movements in automobile-price differentials between European Union countries from 1993 to 1999. Microeconomic data for selling prices of the principal models are used to construct price series for countries using an econometric hedonic-price model. It is shown that,...

We use a detailed database to investigate exchange-rate pass-through at the product level for a large number of countries. The empirical analysis suggests that pricing behaviours are dichotomous, with complete pass-through in around 25% of sectors and significant pricing-to-market in the...

Global trade contracted quickly and severely during the global crisis. This paper uses a unique dataset of French firms to match export data to firm-level credit constraints and shows that most of the 2008–2009 trade collapse was due to the unprecedented demand shock and to product...

Cet article élabore une nouvelle méthodologie de datation des cycles financiers extrêmes. S?appuyant sur la théorie des valeurs extrêmes, il étend la « calculus rule » afin de détecter les pics et les creux exceptionnels. Appliquée sur des séries financières américaines...