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...

Succeeding the conservative José Maria Aznar, the socialist Luis Rodriguez Zapatero became Prime Minister in March 2004. Economics? growth was strong with an important reduction of unemployment and a public deficit close to zero, but many imbalances were pointed out (low productivity, high...

House prices have risen strongly since 1997 in France, like in many other developed countries. Indeed, housing supply has not been strong enough to answer a buoyant demand. Household demand for housing has been mainly boosted by falling interest rates and a lengthening of loan duration, but also...