In this paper, we investigate the impact of surprises made by scheduled monetary policy announcements on French stock market. Most of empirical studies achieved tends to test this effect on U.S stock market. Taken the French market as a representative European stock markets, we study the effect...

We estimate the reaction function of monetary policy in the Euro area and derive the Taylor-type policy rule that a would-be ECB would have followed since the beginning of the European Monetary System (1979-2003). We first follow the standard GMM methodology developed by Clarida, Galí and...

In this article we estimate a time-varying " natural " rate of interest (TVNRI) for a synthetic euro area over the period 1979Q1-2002Q4 using a small backward-looking macroeconomic model, broadly following a methodology developed by Laubach and Williams (2003) for the United States. The Kalman...

French abstract: Par un arrêt très attendu « Peter Gauweiler c/ Deutscher Bundestag » du 16 juin 2015 (affaire C-62/14), la Cour de justice de l'Union européenne (CJUE) a statué à titre préjudiciel sur une mesure de politique monétaire non conventionnelle menée par la Banque centrale...

In general, empirical studies having evaluated with firm individual data the effects of structural labour market reforms in European countries do not reach unambiguous conclusions. In particular, they find that reforms increasing incentives to lower the number of temporary labour contracts do...