Assessing the discretionary component of a fiscal policy is a difficult task. With a vector autoregressive model of the us economy and thanks to an original identification procedure, Blanchard and Perotti [2002, qje] were able to estimate thoroughly the impact on gdp of a discretionary shock on...

A structural var model is used to investigate the relative importance of interest rate, exchange rate and credit channels in the monetary policy transmission in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland between 1995 and 2004. Main results are as follows. First, responses of industrial production to...

La crise amorcée en 2007 à partir d’un segment du marché hypothécaire américain s’est propagée à l’ensemble des marchés financiers, entraînant un risque systémique majeur du système financier international aux conséquences graves sur l’économie réelle. De financière, la...

The economic and financial crisis has given way to Keynesian fiscal policy. To avoid a collapse of economic and financial system, all OECD countries have implemented recovery plans. Even if the uncertainty regarding the recovery is high, time is now, in most countries, for the adoption of fiscal...