With respect to relocation (delocalisation) issues two attitudes can be contrasted. According to the most standard one, relocation does not create any problem when full competition prevails in product, labour, and capital markets. Changes in transportation and production costs may generate...

The trend of female employment in France is original in comparison with the other European countries. Although French women have more children than their European sister members they are massively present on the labour market. As Jeanne Fagnani (2001) emphasises it, this paradox changes the...

The phenomena of globalisation is happening in a world populated by nation States, without any emptiness in between the Nations. What is the function of a Nation state if not to protect its population ? More than ever the Nation States of the world are well and alive – the hyper power of the...

Questo studio riprende e approfondisce alcuni degli spunti emersi dal rapporto sulla dinamica dell'export pubblicato dall'Eurobs lo scorso anno. Le tre province che fanno parte dell'Euregio sono caratterizzate da alcune interessanti regolarità e differenze nella propria struttura economica. In...

The purpose of this note is to compare the characteristics of the actual Stability and Growth Pact with that of a European “modified golden rule”. The latter would consist in achieving in each EU country a cyclically-adjusted net-of-public-investment balance. The benchmark for comparison is...

This paper aims at providing a quantitative assessment of different proposals for reforming the Stability and Growth Pact by extending a counterfactual experiment performed in Eichengreen and Wyplosz (1998). Using estimated coefficients from a reduced form model, we simulate the path of the...

Le rapport Gallois préconise un élargissement des allègements de cotisations sociales pour des salaires élevés. Dans cette optique un crédit d’impôt aux entreprises est entré en vigueur au 1er janvier 2013. Ces mesures visent à aider l’industrie française à investir dans une...

Le vieillissement de la population est un phénomène commun à l’ensemble des pays de l’Union européenne. Ainsi, pour six pays étudiés (Allemagne, Espagne, France, Italie, Royaume-Uni, Suède), la proportion des plus de 65 ans passerait de 16,5 % en 2000 à 28 % en 2050 selon les...

Dans son ouvrage, Le capital au XXIe siècle, Thomas Piketty souligne les risques d’une explosion des inégalités de patrimoine, car le capital augmenterait plus vite que le revenu dans plusieurs pays, dont la France. Nous reviendrions ainsi au niveau des inégalités du début du XXe...

This paper attempts at providing a survey of the different models of individual decision making within the household. The first section reviews the traditional approach to household decision making and emphasize its weaknesses. In addition to the standard assumption of selfish agents, other...