Dans cet article, nous étudions empiriquement les déterminants des spreads des obligations souveraines des pays de l'UE vis-à-vis de l'Allemagne entre 2003-2010. Nous abordons deux questions principales. Tout d'abord, nous examinons quelle proportion de la variation des spreads s'explique par...

The financial crisis has turned into a real economic crisis and then into a public finance crisis: its political and social implications show very obviously, even to the most unaware people, how much economic matters are a social and political phenomenon. Is political economy going to be more...

In this paper we investigate the relationship between inequality and the environment in a growing economy from a political economy perspective. We consider an endogenous growth economy, where growth generates pollution and a deterioration of the environment. Public expenditures may either be...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the international trade cooperation in order to determine the sustainable cooperative tariff rates in a political economy perspective. This paper establishes a tariff-setting game among two countries as a two-phase game : negotiation phase and...