While the mainstream policies can not be surpassed in the enchanted ‘optimizable'world, (Post) Keynesians have to resign themselves to manage without magic wand inthe uncertain real world. The paper discusses the monetary rules proposed in the recentPost Keynesian literature. It argues that...

Based on panel data of 58 countries, of which 22 Inflation Targeters and 36 non Inflation Targeters, over the period 1980-2003, this paper highlights the effect of Inflation Targeting – IT- on Fiscal Discipline –FD-. We make four contributions to the literature. Firstly, by applying the 2SLS...

We use laboratory experiments with human subjects to test the relevance of di-fferent inflation targeting regimes. In particular and within the standard New Keynesian model, we evaluate to what extent communication of the inflation target is relevant to the success of inflation targeting. We...

De nombreux facteurs ont été avancés pour expliquer la crise des subprimes et l'imprévoyance d'institutions financières pourtant compétentes. Parmi les raisons de fond, on a accusé la titrisation qui mettait sur le marché des produits financiers complexes attachés à des créances...

This paper analyses the feasibility of a monetary union within the Mercosur, focusing on cycle synchronicity. Three questions are addressed, concerning respectively the features of shocks hitting each member, the impact of exchange rate regime differences on countries' responses and the share of...

This paper focuses on the identification and short term forecast of the correlation between the Labor Productivity Index (LPI) and the Average Gross Earnings Index (AGEI) in the Romanian Industry. The tools and models that were used consist of several lag econometric models, ARIMA processes, as...

Nous proposons dans cet article, à partir des approches de Taylor (2008) et de Gouriéroux et Jasiak (2008), d'agréger différents modèles de quantiles et d'expectiles afin d'obtenir une méthode plus robuste de calcul de la valeur-en-risque et de la perte conditionnelle maximale en...