Missing deflation – unique to America?
By Paul Hubert, Mathilde Le Moigne Was the way inflation unfolded after the 2007-2009 crisis atypical? According to Paul Krugman: “If inflation [note: in the […]
How can Europe be saved? How can the paradigm be changed?
By Xavier Ragot There are new inflections in the debate over the construction of Europe. New options from a variety of economic and political perspectives […]
The minimum wage: from labour costs to living standards. Comparing France, Germany and the UK
By Odile Chagny, IRES, Sabine Le Bayon, Catherine Mathieu, Henri Sterdyniak, OFCE Most developed countries now have a minimum wage, including 22 of the 28 EU countries. […]
The dilemmas of immaterial capitalism
By Sarah Guillou A review of: Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake, Capitalism Without Capital. The Rise of the Intangible Economy, Princeton University Press, 2017, 288 pp. This […]
The 2018 European economy: A hymn to reform
By Jérôme Creel The OFCE has just published the 2018 European Economy [in French]. The book provides an assessment of the European Union (EU) following […]
France’s growth in 2018-2019: What the forecasters say …
By Sabine Le Bayon and Christine Rifflart Following the INSEE’s publication of the first version of the accounts for the fourth quarter of 2017 and […]
Which new path for raising labour productivity?
By Bruno Ducoudré and Eric Heyer The industrialized countries are experiencing what seems to be a persistent slowdown in the growth of labour productivity since […]
No love lost for Chinese investors!
By Sarah Guillou In his speech of 15 January 2017, France’s Minister of Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire, speaks of “plundering investments”, suspecting Chinese […]
High-frequency trading and regulatory policies. A tale of market stability vs. market resilience
by Sandrine Jacob Leal and Mauro Napoletano Over the past decades, high-frequency trading (HFT) has sharply increased in US and European markets. HFT represents a […]
Is it possible to experiment with a universal income?
By Guillaume Allègre, @g_allegre In a blog entitled “Revenu universel, l’impossible expérimentation” [Universal income, the impossible experiment], I underlined the limits of current and future experiments […]