Cet article est une étude empirique de la formation des croyances de survie et de leur impact sur les décisions en matière de contrats d'assurance décès. L'étude est menée sur un échantillon d'individus entre 45 et 65 ans, qui ont été interrogés sur leurs croyances de survie, leurs...

Several legal missions from the Federal Planning Bureau require the construction of long-term macroeconomic scenarios for the Belgian economy. In order to increase the consistency of these scenarios and to build them within a rigorous theoretical framework, it appeared important to develop a new...

The concepts of potential growth and output gap are important tools to evaluate the state of the business cycle and to assess the supply-side capacity of an economy. They have also become an essential ingredient of the European fiscal surveillance process. However, the global economy is facing...

This paper presents the main improvements carried out to the macroeconometric model MZE since its creation in 2003. We have back-calculated the series over the period 1980-1995, in order to make the model more stable. To our knowledge, this paper is the first application of Kllians (1998) method...

We reformulate Grandmont's and its successors' notion of behavioral heterogeneity such as to get the exact insensitivity of the aggregate budget share function with respect to changes in prices and income, instead of a mere approximate insensitivity. We propose a non parametric set-up such that,...

L’objectif de cet article est de retracer l’histoire de la macroéconomie de ses débuts à nos jours en prenant en compte sa double dimension théorique et empirique. Elle a profondément marqué l’évolution des politiques économiques. Dans un premier temps, nous rappelons la triple...

This paper investigates value and growth investing in a large administrative panel of Swedish residents. We show that over the life-cycle, households progressively shift from growth to value as they become older and their balance sheets improve. Furthermore, investors with high human capital and...

Dans ce texte, nous étudions le rôle des organisations d'économie sociale dans le secteur de l'aide à domicile en Belgique. L'organisation des services d'aide à domicile pose en effet question dans un contexte marqué par l'évolution des besoins et des politiques publiques, ainsi que par...