[eng] Economic liberalism and interventionism. A comparative analysis of opinions about the economic role of government in six countries Economic liberalism and interventionism A comparative analysis of opinions about the economic role of government in six countries Michel Forse The analysis of...

[eng] Health care expenditures in France : ailments of love ? Bruno Ventelou In France, health care expenditures increase faster than GDP, which is a recurrent dilemma for the public finance balance of the social protection system. Microeconomic analysis identifies several reasons for such an...

[eng] The reform of statutory pension insurance in Germany Arnaud Lechevalier This article provides an analysis of the recent changes in statutory pension insurance Germany : the « 1992 Pension Reform ». Act and the reform which should have been implemented in January 1999 and which the new...

[eng] The vanishing of the gap between monetary and financial assets prevent central Banks from fixing the interest rate according to the evolution of a monetary aggregate. Central banks fix the short-term nominal interest rate each period; the monetary aggregate, whatever its arbitrary...

[eng] Social sciences, economy and immigration Jacky Fayolle The French economists have taken part in the public debate about immigration less actively than demographers, jurists and sociologists. However economic thought about immigration exists on the international scale for a long time and it...

[fre] L'OFCE a beaucoup utilisé le modèle MOSAÏQUE, durant les quinze années de son existence comme outil pour traiter des questions de politique économique et pour tenter de prévoir, plusieurs fois par année, le futur de Véconomie française. Cette représentation trimestrielle de...

[eng] The adoption of the common currency within a context of European fiscal systems diversity could lead to fierce tax competition. Capital income taxation is at stake. The fiscal gap on the corporate income tax between the European country is measured with the cost of capital concept. We find...