The conditionality employed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its lending policy is one of the main themes of controversy in the debate on the new international financial architecture. The purpose of this paper is to propose an analytical framework integrating the diverse explanations...

Ce working paper regroupe trois projets d'articles qui ont pour même thème les anticipations d'inflation et leur utilisation dans le cadre de la politique monétaire. Ils est apparu opportun de les synthétiser sous la forme de trois parties d'un seul document, permettant ainsi au lecteur...

[fre] Jean-Pierre Allegret Camille Cornand La politique de diffusion de l'information : la transparence des banques centrales est-elle toujours préférable ? La transparence est devenue l'un des piliers des banques centrales et des institutions internationales afin d'accroître leur...

Relying on the recent literature, we propose an informational interpretation to the recent financial crisis. We adopt a twofold point of view. On the one hand, we analyze the difficulties associated with the inability of economic and financial agents to deal with information and with the lack of...

In this paper, we test the empirical implications of financial openness on long-term growth through the financial development channel. Our work differs from the existing literature on a number of issues, the most important of them lies in the study of the relationship between financial openness,...

<marquage typemarq="gras"/> The aim of this paper is to evaluate to what extent more transparency can reduce the occurrence of speculative attacks. It proposes a survey of the literature about the pros and cons of transparency on the exchange rate market, which is one of the main pillars of the new international financial...

This article develops the idea that, in the long run, the euro should exert a stabilizing influence, contributing to the creation of a co-operative monetary regime favorable to greater stability. This forecast requires a reformulation of the theory of hegemonic stability, which is provided in...

In this paper, we test the existence of financial development threshold effects, firstly, between financial development and long-term growth, and, secondly, between financial development and long-term GDP. We also ask whether such effects may explain the link financial development -...

The aim of this paper is to investigate oil price shocks' effects and their associated transmission channels on global imbalances. To this end, we rely on a Global VAR approach that allows us to account for trade and Financial interdependencies between countries. Considering a sample of 30...

This paper analyzes the influence of successive crises, including the recent European sovereign debt crisis, on banks’ equity returns for 11 countries. Our data span the period December 14th 2007-March 8th 2013 that encompasses different episodes of economic and financial turmoil since the...