This paper investigates the role of learning by both private agents and the central bank (two-sided learning) in a New Keynesian framework populated by private agents and a central bank that have asymmetric imperfect knowledge about the true data generating process. We assume that all agents...

Progress on the question of whether policymakers should respond directly to financial variables requires a realistic economic model that captures the links between asset prices, credit expansion, and real economic activity. Standard DSGE models with fully-rational expectations have difficulty...

A huge literature analyzes the performance of simple rules in closed-economy models when the policy-maker observes only a noisy measure of the state of the economy. This paper extends the analysis to a small-open economy new keynesian model. Passing from a closed-economy model to an open-economy...

State-of-the-art algorithms for solving sovereign debt models with endogenous default rely on value function iterations. These algorithms are consequently very slow and quickly become intractable, even for a state space of dimension as low as three. This paper shows how to adapt the endogenous...

We argue that the efficiency of the Danish flexicurity Model, which combines high unemployment benefits with low job protection and high participation rate, relies on strong public-spiritedness. We also argue that Continental and Mediterranean European countries are unlikely to be able to...

First we provide a simple labor supply model in which heterogeneity in family preferences can account for cross-country variations in both the level and the dynamics of employment rates of demographic groups. Second, we provide evidence based on international individual surveys that family...

Ce papier vise à estimer l'effet des hausses de la durée requise de cotisation des réformes 1993 et 2003 des retraites sur l'allongement de la durée des carrières en France. L'utilisation des données administratives et exhaustives de la CNAV (1994-2003) nous permet de rendre compte...

Ce rapport vise à clarifier les enjeux conceptuels et quantitatifs que poserait l'introduction d'un impôt généralisé sur le capital. L'hypothèse de travail consiste à supprimer des impôts jugés économiquement néfastes pour les remplacer par un impôt sur le capital. Une telle réforme...