This paper analyzes the long term sustainability of budgetary policies in a general equilibrium framework. The analysis is based on an overlapping generations model where the government fixes a tax rate on factor incomes, conducts unproductive and productive public spendings and determines the...

With population ageing, fiscal consolidation has become of paramount importance for euro area countries. Consolidation can be pursued in various ways, with different effects on potential growth, which itself will be dragged down by ageing. A dynamic general equilibrium model with overlapping...

Since 1986, Vietnam has been reforming its economic system, moving from a centrally planned economy to a market-oriented economy connected to the rest of the world. This process has been shaped by the tensions and power relationship between moderate and radical reformers and the interaction of...

The budget is being more and more criticized. Its abandonment is even suggested. This would be the failure of a management tool that was born in the 1930s and that had since a great success. It seems too early to tell whether this criticism will lead to its disappearance. However, we can...

Cet article évalue l'impact sur la croissance potentielle à l'horizon 2020 de différentes trajectoires de dette publique française, sous l'hypothèse d'une accélération des dépenses de retraite entièrement financée par endettement. Un modèle analytique avec fonction de production et...

Cette étude présente une méthode empirique simple permettant d'évaluer l'impact des finances publiques sur la croissance à court terme, et plus précisément : a)l'impulsion discrétionnaire des finances publiques avant bouclage macroéconomique ; b) l'impact sur la croissance de...