Depuis 2010, la plupart des pays industrialisés ont engagé une stratégie de réduction des déficits budgétaires. Cette stratégie a cassé la reprise naissante de l’économie mondiale et plongé à nouveau la zone euro en récession. L’austérité et la récession y furent en effet...

La région Ile-de-France est caractérisée par une faible augmentation de l’offre de logements et une hausse importante des prix de l’immobilier. Pour lever la contrainte foncière, la densification, tout au moins dans la proche périphérie de l’hypercentre, paraît une solution...

To exit the Great Recession and initiate the transition towards a low carbon economy, we propose a public-private investment plan in the energetic transition of about 2 points per year of European GDP. The key concept of this plan is the opportunity to reconsider the criteria for public finances...

Recent evidence has renewed views on the size of fiscal multipliers. It is notably emphasized that fiscal multipliers are higher in times of crisis. Starting from this literature, we develop a simple and tractable model to deal with the fiscal strategy led by euro area countries. Constrained by...

Five years after the beginning of the financial turmoil in 2008, the euro area is still in crisis. However, there are some positive signs which have emerged. Some say that the main imbalances are on their way toward resolution. Others claim that the euro’s survival of what has proven to be a...

EMU countries have engaged in a consolidation of fiscal policies since 2011. This paper deals with the public debt and output dynamic consequences of this strategy. To this end, we develop a simple macroeconomic model of the Euro area, where fiscal multiplier is time-varying. Recent empirical...