Since the launch of the euro, persistent and even rising disparities among member states have made it difficult to implement short-term or structural common economic policies. The article gives an overview of Euro area disparities in terms of growth and inflation and imbalances, mainly...

The public finances crisis has brought binding fiscal rules proposals back to the forefront. The paper analyses their justifications and specifications, either in a classical or in a Keynesian framework. There is no evidence that public deficits were caused by fiscal indiscipline in recent years...

[eng] European monetary union has again been the subject of debate in recent months. The supporters are mainly French, the reasons being that France wishes, on the one hand, to assert its will to manage a strong national currency and, on the other hand, to limit the monetary leadership of West...

[fre] Les prévisions occupent une place particulière dans le débat public en économie. Elles sont généralement considérées comme des prédictions, qualifiées fréquemment optimistes ou de pessimistes, comme si elles dépendaient de humeur des équipes qui les réalisent. Certes, en un...

[eng] Towards a New Economie Policy in Europe? Ray Barrell (Niesr-London); Paolo Bosi and Paolo Onofri (Prometeia-Bologna); Odile Chagny, Gael Dupont, Thierry Latreille, Catherine Mathieu and Henri Sterdyniak (OFCE-Paris); Joachim Volz (DIW-Berlin). There has been a clear shift towards more...

[fre] Les pays de l'Asie du Sud- Est ont connu dans les deux dernières décennies un fort dynamisme économique et des taux de croissance de l'ordre de 7 %, qui contrastent avec la généralisation du chômage de masse et la faible croissance en Europe. Aussi certains ont accusé la politique...

In early 2013, the French economy, like many other EU economies, faces tough challenges. French GDP is 9 per cent below the level it would have reached had it continued to grow at its pre-crisis trend. France has committed to cut the public deficit to 3 per cent in 2013 and 0 per cent in 2017...

[eng] In this article the new version of the OFCE quarterly macroeconomic model of the French economy is presented. This model is used both for forecasts and economic policy analyses. The model basicallly of the neo-keynesian type, is desaggregating the economy into five sectors and six...

[eng] Forecasts for the French economy in 1994-2000 Loic Cadiou, Gerard Cornilleau, Catherine Mathieu France's growth rate should reach 3.5 % in 1995. Will this recovery be long-lasting ? In order to explore all the possibilites, two scenarios have been considered : the first one is...

[eng] Growth and Economic Policies en Europe. Catherine Mathieu, Olivier Passet. The role of restrictive economic policies has been frequently high lighted to explain the low growth rates of European countries for several years. However, the European average growth rate results from various...