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 […]
Economic outlook
France: the rise in cyclical unemployment continues
By Bruno Ducoudré The Great Recession, which began in 2008, has resulted in a continuous and inexorable rise in unemployment in France, by 3.1 percentage […]
Holding to the required course
By Eric Heyer This text summarizes the OFCE’s 2013-2014 forecasts for the French economy. In 2013, the French economy should see negative annual average growth, with […]
The onset of deflation
By Xavier Timbeau This text summarizes the April 2013 forecasts of the OFCE. The global economic and financial crisis that began in late 2008 is […]
An hommage to Alain Desrosières, statistician, sociologist, historian and philosopher of statistics
By Françoise Milewski and Henri Sterdyniak Alain Desrosières has passed away, at the age of 72. An administrator at the INSEE, he had been editor […]
Revising the multipliers and revising the forecasts – From talk to action?
By Bruno Ducoudré Following on the heels of the IMF and the European Commission (EC), the OECD has also recently made a downward revision in […]
iAGS, independent Annual Growth Survey 2013
by OFCE (Paris), ECLM (Copenhagen) and IMK (Düsseldorf) The independent Annual Growth Survey (iAGS) brings together a group of internationally competitive economists from three European […]
What is the value of the fiscal multipliers today?
By Xavier Timbeau We inherited higher public deficits and greatly increased public debts from the crisis (Table 1). Reducing these will require a major fiscal […]
The euro zone: confidence won’t be enough
By Céline Antonin, Christophe Blot and Danielle Schweisguth This text summarizes the OFCE’s October 2012 forecasts for the economy of the euro zone. After more […]
France: will the war of the 3% take place?
By Eric Heyer This text summarizes the OFCE’s October 2012 forecasts for the French economy. The French economy is expected to see average annual growth […]