This article aims at evaluating potential growth for France, Germany and the euro area during the period from after the 2007-2008 credit crisis until 2012. Such an assessment plays a central role in the determination of the structural deficit and therefore in the definition of consolidation...

This article estimates inobservable components models for studying the division of the zone euro GDP between trends and cycles, using quarterly data covering all the decades 1960 to 1990. Three approaches are confronted: they respectively identify the European cycles starting from the aggregate...

This paper estimates the Euro area output gap with the multivariate Hodrick-Prescott filter. The results show that adding economic information can significantly modify the appreciation of the output gap level of the Euro area. The filter is rewritten as a state-space model and estimated with the...

This article details the main concepts, problems and applications related to state-space models. We first present the general framework for these models and we, then, make explicit the algorithms used for the estimation, i.e. the Kalman filter and the EM algorithm. We, finally, analyse four...