La mondialisation a contribué au ralentissement de l’inflation via une intensification de la concurrence. Mais la convergence des cycles économiques et la pression des émergents sur les marchés de matières premières peuvent créer de nouveaux risques pour la stabilité des prix.

Un fort ralentissement de la croissance américaine affecterait la zone euro car la croissance économique de cette dernière reste assez largement corrélée avec celle des États-Unis.

Real gross domestic product (GDP) fails to account for the trading gains and losses that result from changes in the terms of trade and in the real exchange rate (the price of tradables relative to the price of nontradables). Canada has enjoyed vast improvements in its terms of trade over recent...

Already evoked in the years 1970 by American economists such as Sargen, the concept of country risk returned to the front of the economic scene following the financial crises of the years 1990.The concept of country risk is not new insofar as it is inherent in the swaps between two economic...

This 14th issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains five articles. Topics covered are recent productivity developments in the United States; lessons for Canada from international productivity experience; India’s...

English Abstract: In balancing international financial data (Lane and Milesi-Ferretti, 2006), contrary to most matrix adjustment problems, the only constraints are that, for any given category of assets and liabilities, the sum of assets over countries must equal the sum of liabilities....

La place accordée aux villes dans la politique climatique découle d’un constat simple : elles abritent la majorité de la population mondiale, consomment les deux tiers de l’énergie mondiale et produisent plus de 70 % des émissions mondiales liées à cette consommation. Au niveau...