Poverty and social exclusion in Europe: where are things at?
By Sandrine Levasseur In March 2010, the EU set itself the target for the year 2020 of reducing the number of people living below the […]
Can students evaluate teaching quality objectively?
By Anne Boring, OFCE-PRESAGE-Sciences Po and LEDa-DIAL, www.anneboring.com. The author will present her work at the International Symposium on Gender Bias in the Governance and Evaluation […]
Redistributive policies and the demand for fairness
par Gilles Le Garrec Six years after the onset of the Great Recession, France’s economic situation is still gloomy: growth is sluggish, there are almost 3.5 […]
Is France’s trade deficit entirely structural?
By Eric Heyer The issue at the heart of the debate between those arguing that a lack of supply is behind the low level of […]
The Greek debt – a European story …
By Catherine Mathieu and Henri Sterdyniak At end 2014, Greece’s debt was 317 billion euros, or 176% of its GDP, up from 103% in 2007, despite […]
Who has the best playing field for tax competition: the United States or the European Union?
By Sarah Guillou Two recent events demonstrate the differences in the American and European views on tax competition. First was the case of Boeing, which […]
Flexibility versus the new fiscal effort – the last word has not been spoken
By Raul Sampognaro On 13 January, the Juncker Commission clarified its position on the flexibility that the Member States have in implementing the Stability and […]
Working in the United States: longer, harder, and …. on weekends!
By Elena Stancanelli, Paris School of Economics, CNRS and Research Associate at the OFCE[1] Americans now work longer hours than Europeans. Daniel Hamermesh and Elena […]
The Greek Sisyphus and its public debt: towards an end to the ordeal?
By Céline Antonin After its failure to elect a new President by a qualified majority vote, the Greek Parliament was dissolved, with early elections to […]
France – the sick man of Europe?
by Mathieu Plane – Economist at OFCE (French Economic Observatory – Sciences Po) The year 2014 was marked for France by the risk of European […]