Ce document de travail presente des particularites du developpement economique du Viet-Nam qui, depuis le debut de le decennie, a connu de profonds changements en s'acheminant d'un systeme planifie vers l'economie de marche. Sa croissance remarquable s'est fondee sur les exportations, les...

Our study is three-fold: we, first review the non-linear tests that we suggest to use to detect non-linearities. We, next, investigate the empirical power of the tests, using simulations under the null hypothesis that we have a linear AR model. We, then, turn to empirical data: the returns of...

We examine, from an empiric point of view, the recent behavior of French consumers using "optimism balances" from the monthly household survey conducted by INSEE, the National Statistic Institute. In the first place we evaluate the abilities of consumers to perceive and anticipate their economic...