The financial burden for EU health systems associated with cardiovascular disease (CV) has been estimated to be nearly €110 billion in 2006, corresponding to 10 % of total healthcare expenditure across EU or a mean €223 annual cost per capita. The main purpose of this study is to estimate...

We assess the nature of the European sovereign crisis in the light of a model borrowed from the second generation of currency crises. We bring the theory to the data to empirically test the presence of self-fulfilling dynamics and to identify what may have driven the market sentiment during this...

This paper examines what economic policy has learned from the contemporary developments in economic research and which lessons have been drawn from them for the formulation and the implementation of French economic policy. Advances in research are grouped under three headings: the intertemporal...

This paper proposes an international trade model under uncertainty in which international differences in financial development provide the basis for trade. When preferences exhibit risk vulnerability as defined by Gollier and Pratt [1996], financial development reduces individuals’ risk...

Le Laboratoire Prospective, Stratégie et Développement Durable (PS2D) de la Faculté des Sciences Économiques et de Gestion de Tunis (Université Tunis El Manar) et le Réseau de chercheurs de l’Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie ‘Analyse Economique et Développement’...

Le retour du Brésil à la démocratie s’est accompagné d’une ouverture aux échanges au niveau multilatéral (OMC) et régional(Mercosur). Simultanément, la constitution de 1988 affirmait une volonté forte de décentralisation fiscale. Vingt ans plus tard, le bilan de l’intégration...

Lors des émeutes de Seattle, en 1999, les manifestants avaient planté deux panneaux indiquant deux directions opposées :l’OMC vers la droite, la démocratie vers la gauche. Cette incompatibilité supposée entre la libéralisation du commerce et la démocratie aurait sans doute étonné...

Over the past two centuries, the connection David Ricardo made between money and foreign trade was widely commented on the basis of the 1809-1811 writings, notably the High Price of Bullion, Proof of the Depreciation of Bank Notes, of the 1816 Proposals for an Economical and Secure Currency,...