We present in this article a summary of our work on the relation between country size and growth strategy. We begin by reviewing the major steps in the literature on the economics of country size, focusing on contemporary contributions, from the Robinson volume (1960) to Alesina and Spolaore?s...

[eng] Intra-cis trade and payments . . Within the former Soviet Union, interdependencies of the production sectors of the member Republics were particularly strong. The breakdown of the Union has aggravated the already marked tendency for inter-Republican trade to contract, with very serious...

[fre] Dans cet article, nous mettons en évidence que l'étalon or se présente comme une gigantesque accumulation de dettes publiques et nous dégageons plusieurs hypothèses relatives aux facteurs réels et monétaires ayant permis cette accumulation. En second lieu, en nous concentrant sur...

[eng] Occurring at a time when the efforts, made necessary by the prolonged recession, to keep expenditures down and to increase some categories of receipts were materializing, economic recovery in the US led to substantial budget surpluses for the State and local public sector in 1983 and 1984....

[eng] The Maastricht Treaty has emphasised that « convergence » criteria were holy principles for a successful completion of monetary unification. From this respect, the experience of the «classical» gold standard of the late nineteenth century might have interesting lessons for us, because...

[fre] A la signature du traité de Maastricht, en février 1992, les finances publiques italiennes affichaient des soldes profondément dégradés et le stock de dette publique dépassait le montant du revenu national annuel, tandis que le taux d'inflation, bien qu'en recul par rapport aux...

[eng] Contractionary budgetary policy is not the traditional government response to rising unemployment but it seems now to have become a common one for OECD governments irrespective of their political complexion. This changed attitude seems traceable to the almost universal growth in government...