What are the effects of country size on growth and business cycle volatility? To investigate this question, previously asked by Rose (2006) and Furceri and Karras (2007), we developed an original country-size index with principal component analysis (PCA). Traditional analysis of this topic...

How country size influences economic performance is an area that has received renewed interest, especially with Rose (2006), who found no pattern between a country?s size and its economic performance at the world level. However, when assessing the economic performance of EMU countries, a size...

"Jean-Paul Fitoussi has left a big mark both in terms of scholarship and policy-making influence around the world, and even more in Europe and France. Fitoussi's pluralistic approach has shaped modern macroeconomics, political economy, economics of inequality and, more recently, the economics of...