Cette étude spéciale dresse un bilan de l’évolution de la crise financière qui secoue l’économie mondiale depuis l’été 2007. Partie de l’immobilier aux États-Unis, elle s’est rapidement propagée à l’ensemble du système financier par le biais des mécanismes de titrisation....

This paper constructs a broad measure of financial conditions for the United States which suggests that since the onset of the credit crisis there has been a marked tightening in financial conditions, despite a substantial easing of policy rates and a depreciation of the dollar. This measure of...

The global recession is likely to results in higher structural unemployment for some time in many OECD countries. This paper assesses how the shock to aggregate unemployment as a result of the economic crisis may be transmitted to structural unemployment through hysteresis effects that occur...