What minimum wage for Germany?
By Odile Chagny and Sabine Le Bayon The campaign for the parliamentary elections taking place on 22 September in Germany has engendered a broad debate […]
Rent control: will the ALUR law be sufficient?
By Sabine Le Bayon, Pierre Madec and Christine Rifflart On 10 September 2013, Parliament began discussing the bill on “Access to housing and urban renovation […]
Shocks, unemployment and adjustment – the limits of the European union
By Christophe Blot In an article published in 2013 in Open Economies Review [1], C. A. E. Goodhart and D. J. Lee compare the mechanisms […]
On cosmopolitan currency
By Maxime Parodi, sociologist at the OFCE A cosmopolitan currency is a currency common to many nations and explicitly based on a form of co-sovereignty […]
Solar power is cooling Sino-European relations
By Sarah Guillou In early July 2013, yet another company in the solar industry, Conergy, declared bankruptcy. The departure of this German company, established in […]
In memoriam. Ronald H. Coase (1910-2013)
By Vincent Touzé The American economist Ronald Coase, who died at 102 on 2 September 2013, has left us an exceptional body of work distinguished […]
2013 pensions: a (little) reform…
By Henri Sterdyniak The measures announced by the government on August 27th do not constitute a major reform of the pension system. As shown in […]
Does too much finance kill growth?
By Jérôme Creel, Paul Hubert and Fabien Labondance Is there an optimal level of financialization in an economy? An IMF working paper written by Arcand, […]
Austerity in Europe: a change of course?
By Marion Cochard and Danielle Schweisguth On 29 May, the European Commission sent the members of the European Union its new economic policy recommendations. In these […]
France: why such zeal?
By Marion Cochard and Danielle Schweisguth On 29 May, the European Commission sent the members of the European Union its new economic policy recommendations. As part […]