This paper addresses the macroeconomic impact of international financial integration. I first provide empirical evidence that foreign banking penetration can be associated with a contraction of banking credit, especially in countries with poor credit markets. Second I present a model in which...

In this paper, we use the segmented conditional ICAPM (International Capital Asset Pricing Model) to study the emerging stock markets integration. To address this issue, we apply the asymmetric multivariate version of GARCH-BEKK with structural break of the variance. It allows to specify the...

La Banque de France, la revue American Economic Journal : Macroeconomics, l’École d’économie de Paris ainsi que les centres de recherche ECARES et CEPR ont organisé une conférence sur les enseignement macroéconomiques à tirer de la crise financière. Crise de la dette souveraine,...

Dans l’etude ci-dessous on a ete realise une interpretation de l'impact des fluctuations des taux de change du leu moldave (MDL) sur certaines variables economiques. La periode consideree est Novembre-Decembre 2014 et le debut de l'annee 2015. Notamment au cours de cette periode, le taux de la...

The Swiss Federal government finances are in an excellent shape: debt is small (and decreasing), and carries a low interest rate. This paper reviews the prospects for the Swiss finances drawing on the recent literature. We argue that the current policy of running surpluses and paying down the...