This paper aims at investigating first, the (possibly time-varying) empirical relationship between price and financial stability, and second, the effects of some macro and policy variables on this relationship in the United States and the Eurozone. Three empirical methods are used to examine the...

European indicators have been tailored to monitor the supposed free rider problem of European project and have concentrated on public finance stability at an aggregate level. A maturing Union should now turn towards two aspects of its sustainability. The first one is the internal stability and...

[eng] The idea that the labour market was suffering from sup ply problems led, at the beginning of the decade, to the introduction of the prime pour l'emploi (PPE, a tax credit for low earners), adopted as part of a series of reforms to make the transition from unemployment to employ ment more...

For two decades, the share of trade in inputs, also called vertical trade, has been dramatically increasing. In reallocating trade flows to their original input-producing industries and countries, this paper suggests a new measure of international trade: `value-added trade' and makes it possible...