[eng] Wealth effects and consumer spending in the US and the UK Corinne Houizot, Helene Baudchon, Catherine Mathieu and Francisco Serranito The sharp rise in stock market priees over the second half of the 90's is said to have boosted household consumption in the US. Changes in housing and net...

[eng] Democratization of teaching : an European comparison Marie Duru-Bellat and Annick Kieffer Evolution of social inequalities at school, in France, throughout XXst century, can be evaluated by statistical models, which allow the comparison with the results available in other countries....

[eng] What will become of the interest spreads on the debts of different sovereign borrowers under EMU ? Will these always be small and merely reflect differences in liquidity, as they do today, or will they progressively widen and also reflect default risk? Such are the questions posed in this...

[fre] Les prévisions occupent une place particulière dans le débat public en économie. Elles sont généralement considérées comme des prédictions, qualifiées fréquemment d'optimistes ou de pessimistes, comme si elles dépendaient de l'humeur des équipes qui les réalisent. Certes, en...

[eng] Working time in France : reduce reduction Eric Heyer, Xavier Timbeau Since lst February 2000, the legal working time is fixed, in France, to 35 hours by week for the private sector. We lead a prospective scenario of application of « 35 hours policy » and a prospective analysis of...

[eng] Presidential address for the Twelfth World Congress of the International Economic Association, summarising semi-formally the author's recent work and concerns. Uncertainty and incomplete markets breed demand volatility as well as price and wage rigidities. The conjunction of these leads to...

[eng] France and Italy facing their European Destiny Michel Aglietta and Jacques Le Cacheux Over the past few decades, the French and Italian economies have gone through disturbances that have, in many respects, been similar. The economic policies carried out on both sides of the Alps have,...