An ever so fragile recovery
By the Department of Analysis and Forecasting, under the direction of Eric Heyer and Xavier Timbeau This text summarizes the OFCE’s economic forecast for 2015-2017 for the […]
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Investing in the zero carbon economy in order to escape secular stagnation
By Xavier Timbeau What the downward revisions of various forecasts (IMF, OECD, OFCE) presented in early autumn 2015 tell us about the euro zone is not very […]
Lower taxation on business but higher on households
By Mathieu Plane and Raul Sampognaro Following the delivery of the Gallois Report in November 2012, the government decided at the beginning of Francois Hollande’s five-year […]
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 […]
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 […]
Regulating the financial activities of Europe’s banks: a fourth pillar for the banking union
By Céline Antonin, Henri Sterdyniak and Vincent Touzé At the impetus of EU Commissioner Michel Barnier, on 29 January 2014 the European Commission proposed new […]
TOFLIT18: for a better understanding of the French economy
By Loïc Charles and Guillaume Daudin* Recurrent questions on our economies are, to quote a few: Which factors and actors are key for economic development? […]
Is the French tax-benefit system really redistributive?
By Henri Sterdyniak [1] France has set up benefits such as RSA income support, PPE in-work negative income tax, CMU universal health care, the minimum pension, housing […]