Areva, Flamanville and Fessenheim: key players in France’s nuclear turn
By Sarah Guillou The recent law on “the energy transition to green growth”, promulgated on 17 August 2015, plans for a fall in nuclear energy’s […]
Climate justice – the “Open Sesame” of the COP 21 climate conference
By Eloi Laurent Climate negotiations cannot be limited to technical discussions between experts about the reliability of scientific data: they need to take the form […]
Financialisation and financial crisis: vulnerability and traumatic shock
By Jérôme Creel, Paul Hubert, Fabien Labondance Since the mini-crash that took place in the Shanghai stock market in August, financial instability has resurfaced in […]
The upward drift in senior unemployment continued in August
Analysis and Forecasting Department (France team) The figures for the month of August 2015 published by France’s Pôle Emploi job centre show a significant increase […]
The redistributive effects of the ECB’s QE programme
By Christophe Blot, Jérôme Creel, Paul Hubert, Fabien Labondance and Xavier Ragot Rising inequality in income and wealth has become a key issue in discussions […]
Wage moderation in Germany – at the origin of France’s economic difficulties
By Xavier Ragot, President of the OFCE, CNRS-PSE, together with Mathilde Le Moigne, ENS If the future of the euro zone does indeed depend on […]
Unemployment: a fall by temping
by Analysis and Forecasting Department (France team) The unemployment figures for the month of July 2015 indicate a slight fall (-1900) in the number of […]
Greece: When history repeats itself
By Jacques Le Cacheux The duration of the Greek crisis and the harshness of the series of austerity plans that have been imposed on it […]
Argentina’s experience of debt crisis
By Augusto Hasman and Maurizio Iacopetta There is still a lot of uncertainty around the possible paths that Greece can follow in the near feature. […]
Is Greece in the process of divorce?
By Jérôme Creel The ongoing Greek saga is looking more and more like an old American TV series. JR Ewing returns to the family table […]