French Abstract: Inspirée de la baisse des cours du pétrole entre janvier 2014 et janvier 2016, cet article s'interroge sur la capacité de résilience de l'économie congolaise face à la baisse des cours des produits miniers remarquée depuis juin 2015. Des analyses économétriques...

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...

L'objectif de ce papier est d'évaluer la capacité de différents types de chocs fiscaux à améliorer l'explication des fluctuations de l'économie française considérée comme une petite économie ouverte. Ainsi, nous développons un modèle d'équilibre général intertemporel stochastique...

This study investigates the pricing behaviour of firms in the euro area on the basis of surveys conducted by nine Eurosystem national central banks, covering more than 11,000 firms. The results, robust across countries, show that firms operate in monopolistically competitive markets, where...

The aim of this paper is to check whether the economic and monetary policies developed under the CFA area create co-movements of business cycles of member countries. Indeed, the synchronization of business cycles is a result which can help to appreciate the degree of regional integration. Using...

In connection with a surge in the "new economy" that is statistically difficult to measure, doubts have been cast both on European growth and its comparability with that of the United States. This article explores measurement problems in the French case. The data at current prices seem to be...

Detrending time series and isolating cyclical fluctuations is crucial for business cycle analysis and definition of economic policy. Band-pass filters provide a set of statistical methods to extract the cycle, defined according to a specified range of periodicities. Christiano and Fitzgerald...

En dépassant les obstacles des approches traditionnelles, le cadre analytique fourni par la Théorie de la Régulation offre de nouvelles perspectives pour l'évaluation des crises économiques. Il apparaît particulièrement approprié pour l'identification de leurs causes, ainsi que pour...