We use a new data set of daily visits of the website of the Federal Reserve Board to study the acquisition of information about monetary policy around meetings of the FOMC.

We employ a structural VAR model with global and US variables to study the relevance and transmission of oil, food commodities, and industrial input price shocks. We show that commodities are not all alike. Industrial input price changes are almost entirely endogenous responses to other shocks....

Is inflation (still) a global phenomenon? We study the international co-movement of inflation based on a dynamic factor model and in a sample spanning up to 56 countries during the 1960-2023 period. Over the entire period, a first global factor explains approximately 58% of the variation in...

The global economic landscape is undergoing a transformative shift, as evidenced by the BRICS nations’ increasing dominance. This development raises questions about the emergence of economic and political blocks and their potential leverage. China and India, as the world’s most populous...

Francophone Africa has been dominated to date by the political, economic and cultural repercussions of France’s colonial rule. A major instrument to assert France's interests was the upkeep of a common monetary policy and currency, the CFA Franc. Although this has been increasingly resented by...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. An Overall View of Concordian Economics -- Chapter 3. Concordian Economics: Tools to Return Relevance to Economics -- Chapter 4. From the Revision of Keynes’ Model to Economics for Physicists and Ecologists -- Chapter 5. From the Logic of Mainstream...