Major adjustments are awaiting the euro zone
By Bruno Ducoudré, Xavier Timbeau and Sébastien Villemot Current account imbalances are at the heart of the process that led to the crisis in the […]
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Universal basic income: An ambition to be financed
By Pierre Madec and Xavier Timbeau This evaluation of Universal Basic Income (UBI), the flagship proposal of French presidential candidate Benoît Hamon, highlights a potentially […]
Europe is dead – Long live Europe!
By Maxime Parodi and Xavier Timbeau The British people’s vote for Brexit merely reinforces the political logic that has become an imperative. On the one hand, […]
Give Recovery a Chance
By iAGS team, under the direction of Xavier Timbeau The ongoing recovery of the Euro Area (EA) economy is too slow to achieve a prompt […]
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 […]
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 […]
Greece: an agreement, again and again
By Céline Antonin, Raul Sampognaro, Xavier Timbeau, Sébastien Villemot … La même nuit que la nuit d’avant […The same […]
Save Greece by Democracy!
By Maxime Parodi @MaximeParodi, Thomas Piketty (Director of research at the EHESS and professor at Paris School of Economics), and Xavier Timbeau @XTimbeau The newspapers have been full of […]
The spirit of the letter of the law … to avoid a “Graccident”
Raul Sampognaro and Xavier Timbeau The noose, in the words of Alexis Tsipras, is getting tighter and tighter around the Greek government. The last tranche […]
Greece on a tightrope
By Céline Antonin, Raul Sampognaro, Xavier Timbeau and Sébastien Villemot This text summarizes the special study, “Greece on a tightrope” Since early 2015, Greece’s new government has […]