[fre] La révolution des Nouveaux Classiques a brisé le consensus régnant au sein de la synthèse keynésienne, mais a initié un nouveau consensus méthodologique : toute approche macroéconomique se doit de reposer sur les fondements micro-économiques solides de la théorie des choix. Les...

[eng] The research program called « Economics of Conventions » aims at revisiting the century- long separation, within mainstream economics, between the issues of coordination, rationality and ethics. . In the realistic world of bounded rationality, the rules are a fundamental means of...

This article is the first study to present an econometric evaluation of wage discrimination based on sexual orientation in the French labor market. Having identified same-sex couples using the French Employment Survey, we estimate the wage gap related to sexual orientation in the private and...

[eng] The purpose of this study was to draw up an inventory of European taxation on income from savings products. The methodological difficulties were substantial : tax rules are very diverse from one country to another, and there is no standardised definition of savings products at an...

This paper aims at providing a simple economic framework to address a somewhat neglected question of economic policy, namely the optimal share of investments in military R&D in total public spending. In order to capture the long-run impact of tax-financed military R&D on the growth rate, we...

[eng] Taxation of Savings in Europe . This article presents a comparison of taxation of savings between eleven European countries and United States. Authors explain that reforms don’t impulse European fiscal harmonisation. Differences still exist between countries for same savings and between...