This study compares labor and total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United … extent also relative to France and Japan, a relative decline that was interrupted by the second world war (WW2); (iii) the … remarkable catching-up to the United States by France and Japan after WW2, interrupted in the case of Japan during the 1990s …

Blanchard and Quah(1989) to compute the core inflation in UK. We apply the same technique for France, Germany and UK. Moreover … underlying level in Germany. Stronger nominal rigidity in Germany would explain such a fact …

United States, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Japan and the Netherlands. There are already a large number of …, France and the United Kingdom. Productivity trends are then studied over a shorter period, using quarterly data, for the …

cycle in France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States, using two complementary approaches in our …

prices series for four main euro area countries (Germany, France, Italy and Spain). Empirical results show a strong … relationship for business cycles in France, Italy and Spain. Moreover, French and Spanish house prices cycles appear to be strongly … only in Spain and Germany …

inflation forecasts for France. Mainly two salient points emerge from our results. First, there is a significant contribution of …

This paper constructs an annual dataset of consumption by income quintiles for France since 1989 in order to make a … France. We find consumption inequality to be overall lower than income inequality, and not to follow the dynamics of income … inequality. Consumption inequality is also higher in the US than in France. Finally, based on the weights of the different …