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We study the variability of interest rates and of bank's profits in an economy where banks are heterogenous (they differ in their share in the deposits market and in the nature of the firms they lend to) as well as borrowers (some of them have only access to bank credit while others can directly...
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This paper considers a disequilibrium model of the French economy. This model includes a tradable and a nontradable sectors, investment behaviours of these sectors, and has been estimated over the period 1964/4-1984/4. A regime of excess demand had prevailed in the tradable goods sector from...
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We analyze the effect of disturbances (affecting the interest rate, productivity) on the long term growth rate according to the way the labor market operates (we introduce an insiders market, a competitive market or real wage rigidity). The economy incorporates an endogenous growth mechanism...
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We first briefly survey the literature adressing the issues of savings in the life-cycle, the links between the pension system, the savings rate and labor supply, and more generally the nature and causes of transfers between generations. The choice of the pension system has an influence on...
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According to M. Weitzman, profit-sharing permits to increase employment and to make it less sensitive to the unfavourable disturbances that may affect the economy. However, some doubts have arisen about the actual existence of those benefits of profit-sharing. Moreover, one does not really know...
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We analyze the cases in which it is possible that fixing exchange rates or entering a monetary union is an incentive for the countries, which lose the possibility of using the exchange rate as a policy instrument, to reduce in a non-coordinated way the cost of labor or the level of welfare.
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La possibilité selon laquelle la flexibilité des prix et des salaires peut augmenter l'ampleur des fluctuations cycliques a été avancée. Si ces grandeurs nominales sont flexibles, en cas de récession la baisse de prix pourrait faire monter le taux d'intérêt réel, freinant ainsi encore...
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Nous analysons, à l'aide d'un modèle théorique à deux pays, si la reprise précoce de l'économie américaine implique une forte hausse des taux d'intérêt en Europe, qui mettrait en péril la reprise européenne. Nous examinons les effets des politiques monétaires, du degré de mobilité...
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Nous examinons l'effet de la situation économique de l'Allemagne après la réunification sur les taux d'intérêt en Europe et sur les taux de change vis-à-vis du dollar. Nous nous demandons en particulier ce qu'est la perspective la plus probable pour les parités, l'écart de taux...
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On analyse l'effet sur les risques pris par les banques et la structure de leur actif de l'imposition d'un rapport minimal entre leurs fonds propres et les actifs qu'elles détiennent. Ces effets dépendent en particulier de la représentation du comportement des banques : comme une firme...
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