This working paper gathers three projects of articles which have as a same subject inflation expectations and their use within the framework of monetary policy. It appeared convenient to synthesize them in the form of three parts of only one document, thus making it possible to the reader to...

Monetary conditions and economic activity in the euro area. With a VAR model, we show that the economies of the euro area are strongly dependent on the monetary conditions (short term interest rate, exchange rate). In the long-run, the industrial activity of the area enters in a co-integrating...