The growing globalisation of OECD economies, associated to the progresses in European integration, tends to increase the mobility of capital and to deepen the pressure on tax policies. On the one hand, tax policies are tied by the Stability Pact criteria: the limit imposed on budget deficits...

Compared to the new European members (NEM) and to the new candidate countries, the Middle-East and North African (MENA) countries are a very heterogeneous and fragmented EU frontier. As far as monetary issues are concerned, exchange rate regimes are very different and bilateral exchange rates...

[fre] L'euro comme monnaie de référence à l'est et au sud de l'Union européenne. . Nous montrons que, s'ils souhaitent un ancrage nominal souple de leur monnaie sur une devise étrangère, les pays à l'est et au sud de l'Union européenne devraient, à peu d'exceptions près, définir cet...

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This paper proposes a systematic analysis of the problem of world consistency when deriving equilibrium exchange rates. World inconsistency can arise for two reasons. First, real effective misalignments of currencies out of the considered sample are implicitly assumed to be the mirror image of...