Achieving fiscal convergence between countries of a monetary union helps in the design and implementation of policies to strengthen macroeconomic convergence, which mitigates the contagion effects of macroeconomic instability and ensures the long-term viability of the proposed union. This paper...

Achieving fiscal convergence between countries of a monetary union helps in the design and implementation of policies to strengthen macroeconomic convergence, which mitigates the contagion effects of macroeconomic instability and ensures the long-term viability of the proposed union. This paper...

This contribution is highlighted the quite striking paradox between the dominant discourse over the last twenty years or so, calling on the State to reduce its role, and the stability or even inertia of the major macroeconomic aggregates (public spending to GDP, tax burden), the permanent budget...

The Atkinson Report examined measurement of public services' output and productivity. Traditionally, only inputs to the government sector were reflected in the National Accounts. This treatment imposed zero productivity growth for the government sector. From the late 1990s, the United Kingdom...

The level of government debt in Canada relative to gross domestic product has risen steadily since the mid-1970s. Canada has not been alone in experiencing rising government indebtedness, but in comparison to other countries, Canada's debt load is now distinctly on the high side. The author...

High-speed market connections and information processing improve the ability to seize trading opportunities, raising gains from trade. They also enable fast traders to process information before slow traders, generating adverse selection, and thus negative externalities. When investing in...

French Abstract: Les phénomènes financiers sont de plus en plus complexes. Les comportements des agents semblent s'écarter du paradigme naguère dominant de rationalité. Les crises économiques et la poussée régulatrice sont révélatrices des fissures dans l'édifice néoclassique....

French Abstract: Richard Thaler est un économiste de tout premier plan, un chercheur audacieux et original. Professeur à Chicago, temple de l'orthodoxie économique, là-même où Milton Friedman et Eugène Fama ont fait l'essentiel de leur carrière, il est l'un des critiques les plus...

French Abstract: A partir de données journalières de la Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (BRVM) sur une longue période (2009 à 2014), ce présent mémoire cherche à mesurer l’influence des variables caractérisant les volume et les volatilités sur les rendements de six actions...