This paper adds to the empirical literature on business cycle properties across exchange rate regimes. Earlier research examined the consequences of the Bretton Woods system on international stylized facts. However, the conclusions might be biased by the oil shocks at the beginning of the...

In this paper we examine the influence of monetary policy on real activity in France and attempt to isolate the different monetary transmission channels. We use a multivariate model including : output, prices, a monetary aggregate, a short-term interest rate and a short -term bank loan rate.

This paper examines the cyclical properties of a finance constrained economy populated by two classes of households with heterogeneous preferences and featuring social increasing returns-to-scale. The model exhibits indeterminacy for externalities mild enough so that the labor demand curve is...

This paper investigates the sources of disturbances that caused the conjonctural breakdowns in the early 90's, in France, in the United States, in the United Kingdom and germany, through a V.E.C.M. on contributions to growth.

In discrete three-dimensional dynamical systems frequently encountered in dynamic general equilibrium models, local indeterminacy -sunspot equilibria - and local bifurcations -endogenous deterministic fluctuations - issues are quite difficult to handle. Pitfalls derive from the fact that in...

The aim of this paper is to reveal empirically two kinds of mechanismis which operate on inventories: one is demand related and the other is supply related.

This paper studies the cyclical labor market properties of a model which can account for the Phillips and Beveridge curves. Monopolistic competition and sticky prices on the good market are introduced in a labor market search model disturbed both by technological and money supply shocks. We...

Empirical evidence suggest that nominal shocks play a major role in explaining real exchange rate fluctuations. I thus develop a two-country monopolistic competition model with nominal impulses, adjustement costs and price discrimination. I gauge the ability of the model to solve the quantity...