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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...

This paper addresses the issue of whether and by how much public investment or public capital can enhance economic performance. In comparison with the literature on the subject, we apply many different methodologies to answer these questions. A VAR model (for France, Italy, Germany, the UK and...

Réunifiée en droit mais profondément divisée en fait, parcourue de fractures nouvelles du fait même de son unité retrouvée, l’Union européenne ressemble en cette fin d’année 2006 à la ville de Berlin. Mais un élément décisif distingue la capitale fédérale allemande...

This paper describes recent trends on the efficiency of stabilisers in the European Union. Using both macro evidence on the cyclical sensitivity of budget deficit to economic activity, and micro evidence on the tax and expenditure profiles, we conclude, in agreement with the recent literature,...

The debate on public finances’ sustainability has long focused on the conditions for the accumulation of debt. This implied that, empirically, the analyses revolved around estimations of dynamic versions of the debt accumulation equation, through unit root tests and cointegration tests between...

Since 1990, a growing number of countries have adopted inflation targeting (IT) around the world. Empirical evidence on its advantages has been mixed so far, and most assessments have been based on a control group methodology. In this paper, using a MSVAR technique, we assess the adoption of IT...

Since 1990, a growing number of countries have adopted inflation targeting (IT) around the world. Empirical evidence on its advantages has been mixed so far, and most assessments have been based on a control group methodology. In this paper, using a MSVAR technique, we assess the adoption of IT...

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Réunifiée en droit mais profondément divisée en fait, parcourue de fractures nouvelles du fait même de son unité retrouvée, l’Union européenne ressemble en cette fin d’année 2006 à la ville de Berlin. Mais un élément décisif distingue la capitale fédérale allemande...