A fiscal policy to promote structural reform – lessons from the German case
By Eric Heyer “France should copy Germany’s reforms to thrive”, Gerhard Schröder entitled an opinion piece in the Financial Times on 5 June 2013. As […]
Monetary policy and property booms: dealing with the heterogeneity of the euro zone
By Christophe Blot and Fabien Labondance The transmission of monetary policy to economic activity and inflation takes place through various channels whose role and importance […]
The strange forecasts of the European Commission for 2014
By Mathieu Plane The figures for French growth for 2014 published by the European Commission (EC) in its last report in May 2013 appear to […]
Inequality and Global Imbalances: reconsidering old ideas to address new problems
by Jean-Luc Gaffard and Francesco Vona The main challenge of the Bretton Woods agreements was to reconcile social justice and full employment to be achieved […]
Housing and the city: the new challenges
By Sabine Le Bayon, Sandrine Levasseur and Christine Rifflart The residential real estate market is a market like no other. Since access to housing is […]
What factors have put the brakes on growth since 2010?
By Eric Heyer and Hervé Péléraux At the end of 2012, five years after the start of the crisis, France’s GDP has still not returned […]
In the Netherlands, change is for now!
By Christophe Blot While France has just reaffirmed that it will meet its commitment to reduce its budget deficit to below 3% by 2014 (see […]
France’s Stability Programme: the missing line
By Eric Heyer On April 17, the government presented its Stability Programme for 2013-2017 for the French economy. For the next two years (2013-2014), the government […]
What kind of pension reform for 2013?
In a speech on 28 March, Francois Hollande raised the 20 billion euro deficit forecast for 2020 in order to announce a further extension of […]
The chalice of austerity, right to the dregs
Céline Antonin, Christophe Blot and Danielle Schweisguth This text summarizes the OFCE’s April 2013 forecasts The macroeconomic and social situation in the euro zone continues […]