How many euros per job created?
By Guillaume Allègre, @g_allegre The Responsibility Pact, the CICE competitiveness tax break, reductions on social security charges … is it possible to reduce the evaluation […]
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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 […]
The debacle of austerity
By Xavier Timbeau This text summarizes the OFCE’s October 2012 forecasts. The year 2012 is ending, with hopes for an end to the crisis disappointed. […]
The governance of public finances: from the Fiscal pact to France’s Organic law
by Henri Sterdyniak So the French government has had Parliament enact an “Organic law relating to the planning and governance of public finances” (loi organique relative […]
Youth “jobs of the future”: What impact on employment and government finances?
Éric Heyer and Mathieu Plane The bill aimed at creating 150,000 “jobs for the future” [emplois d’avenir] for unemployed youth will be submitted to Parliament […]
Social action, but no end of the crisis
Evaluation of the five-year economic programme (2012-2017) By Eric Heyer, Mathieu Plane, Xavier Timbeau The initial decisions of the five-year programme are coming amidst an […]
Europe’s banks: leaving the zone of turbulence?
By Vincent Touzé The 2008 crisis almost endangered the entire global financial system. Thanks to support from governments and central banks, the banking sector has […]
Must balancing the public finances be the main goal of economic policy
By Henri Sterdyniak The financial crisis of 2007-2012 caused a sharp rise in public deficits and debt as States had to intervene to save the […]