L’île de La Réunion, région française ultrapériphérique, se caractérise par des performances économiques généralement en deçà de celles de la métropole, mais aussi de celles de partenaires commerciaux qui partagent nombre de caractéristiques communes. Le très fort déficit de la...

Tunisia has experienced a performance when pursuing a constant real exchange rate rule. The limitations of this rule are beginning to emerge in the context of a more open economy, which desire to relax capital controls. This paper estimates the equilibrium real exchange rate of the dinar vis...

Recent studies on general equilibrium models with transaction costs show that the dynamics of the real exchange rate are necessarily nonlinear. Our contribution to the literature on nonlinear price adjustment mechanisms is treefold. First, we model the real exchange rate by a Multi-Regime...

We apply several recently proposed tests for structural breaks in conditional variance and covariance dynamics. The tests apply to both the class of ARCH and SV type processes and allow for long memory features. We also apply them to data-driven volatility estimators using high-frequency data...

The purpose of this article is to study the trends in per capita productivity in several major industrialised countries. The analysis is first based on annual data over a long period spanning the entire 20th century for the United States, France and the United Kingdom. Productivity trends are...

Short lived arbitrage opportunities arise when prices adjust with a lag to new information. They are toxic because they expose dealers to the risk of trading at stale quotes. Hence, theory implies that more frequent toxic arbitrage opportunities and a faster arbitrageurs' response to these...

French Abstract: La crise de la zone euro illustre les carences des mécanismes d'ajustements dans une union monétaire caractérisée par une forte hétérogénéité. Cette situation reflète un diagnostic simple. Au niveau de l'ensemble de la zone, l'euro est proche de son taux d'équilibre....

French Abstract: Cet article examine les mesures prises par la Chine en faveur d'une réforme financière, en portant une attention toute particulière à la libéralisation du compte de capital et à l'internationalisation de l'utilisation du renminbi (RMB). Après le ralentissement du rythme...