On Sunday 20 June 1948, the Deutsche Mark was swapped against the Reichsmark and became immediately used in all transactions and evicted all others means of payment. This success was associated with a massive upsurge of consumption and productivity, all things that were predicted by the money...

[spa] Lo nuevo en la tasa de ahorro de las familias, . Por Pierre Sicsic y Jean-Pierre Vïletelle.. . Como en el artículo de Bonnet y Dubois de este número, comprobamos las lagunas de la ecuación de consumo más elemental que vincula consumo, ingreso e inflación. . Introducir las variaciones...

France's post-war growth has gone through four phases. The strong growth performance of the 1950s was helped by a phenomenon of catch-up on best foreign practices, and by a positive effect of capital rejuvenation. Yet the best performance was to follow and covered a period beginning around 1958...

[fre] L'ampleur du développement récent des crédits à la consommation rend cruciale l'évaluation de leur impact sur la consommation des ménages. Des accélérations de l'encours de crédits ont déjà été observées dans le passé. Mais jamais leurs variations, qui constituent les...

The aim of this paper is to isolate and measure the respective importance of political and economic aspects in two critical episodes of the French inter-war period: the stabilization process of the mid-1920s and the reluctance to abandon the gold standard during the 1930s. We do this by...