Au cours des années 90, les régimes d'ancrage souple dans les marchés émergent ont montré leur fragilité. En effet, de nombreuses crises de change ont frappé ces régimes, laissant alors apparaître un nouveau consensus autour des solutions en coins comme seuls régimes de change viables....

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...

The paper explores (former) transition economies, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and the Republic of Serbia, concerning abandonment of the exchange rate targeting and fixed exchange rate regimes and movement toward explicit/implicit inflation targeting and flexible exchange rate regimes. The...

Cet article analyse le choix du régime de change dans les pays émergents et en développement. Par rapport à la littérature existante, il s'en démarque en développant une approche à la fois théorique et empirique. Le modèle s'inscrit dans la littérature caractérisée par la...

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...

This paper analyzes the feasibility of a monetary union in East Asia focusing on business cycles synchronization. Considering the critical role of trade integration in the East Asian integration process, we study whether East Asian countries are characterized by business cycle synchronization....

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...

Oil-exporting countries usually experience large current account improvements following a sharp increase in oil prices. In this paper, we investigate this oil price-current account relationship on a sample of 27 oil-exporting economies. Relying upon the estimation of panel smooth transition...