[eng] Fiscal federalism and european stabilization. . The future European Union shed light on fiscal policies. We study in this article the ability of fiscal federalism to stabilize macroeconomic fluctuations. More particularly, we evaluate the stabilizing effects of automatic stabilizers and...

[eng] Assessing the evolution of volatility shocks persistence on the foreign exchange market from the beginning of the 80's. . This paper aims at determining whether the persistence of volatility shocks on the major foreign exchange markets (DEM and YEN) has changed since the beginning of the...

Recent theoretical studies suggest that migration prospects can raise the expected return to human capital and thus foster education investment at home or, in other words, induce a brain gain. In a recent paper (Beine, Docquier and Rapoport, Economic Journal, 2008) we used the Docquier and...