[eng] The thorough and systematic study about the influence of economic variables on the fecondity has been really developed in connexion with industrial countries. This article presents the principal theories on this matter (Easterlin hypothesis, demographic implosion, new home economics); so...

The contribution of the economic analysis is essential to understand the behavior of giving market?s actors such as donors, recipients, charity organizations and the State. Altruism theory reconciles prosocial and rational behavior. Nevertheless, the opening toward a globalized solidarity makes...

This study presents an assessment of the links between the real interest rate and the growth rate. In the first part of the paper we recall the theoretical foundations of these links. In the second part, we compare empirical data with the predictions of the theory. The real interest rate should...

Since 2008, the euro area unemployment rate has increased constantly, while this economy?s GDP was the same at the end of 2012 as it was in 2008. The recent trend of aggregate economic activity in this area illustrates the risk that an economy leaves its stability corridor, in which it usually...