[fre] Le thème de la nécessité d'une vaste réforme fiscale revient souvent dans les débats économiques en France actuellement. Toutefois, celle-ci peut se voir assigner différents objectifs parfois conflictuels. L'article étudie ce que pourraient être les réformes des différents...

[eng] International real business cycles : is Germany a locomotive for France ? Catherine Bruno A major focus of attention in macroeconomics in recent years has been to identify empirically the forces that induce fluctuations in econo- mic aggregates. The motivation of this literature has been...

[eng] Forecasts for the French economy in 1994-2000 Loic Cadiou, Gerard Cornilleau, Catherine Mathieu France's growth rate should reach 3.5 % in 1995. Will this recovery be long-lasting ? In order to explore all the possibilites, two scenarios have been considered : the first one is...

[eng] Singular Versus Plural Inequalities The Evolutions of the Size Distribution of Income Louis Chauvel In many contemporary researches, the multidimensionality of the inequalities is underlined ; nevertheless, our understanding of the phenomenon of economic inequality is often unidimensional....

[eng] Property cycle and housing policy : international comparison and study of the British case Christine Rifflart Most of the countries have seen during the last ten years a very ample property cycle. Declining during the seventies, housing investment has stabilised (France, United Kingdom) or...

[eng] Investment off risk Département des diagnostics World trade has benefited in 1994 from several expansionary factors leading to a rate of growth of about 10 %. These factors will not occur with the same vigour in 1995 and 1996 : — under the influence of monetary tightening already begun...

[eng] Supply Ahead of Demand Département des diagnostics Following the sharp pick up of the world output and trade, the slow-down observed since the beginning of 1995 is widely spread among the OECD coun- tries. Sluggishness of private consumption and lack of consumer confidence are common...

[eng] Individual characteristics, local lbaour markets, and unemployment in Bulgaria and Poland : lessons from micro-data Sandrine Cazes et Stefano Scarpetta Unemployment has a clear geographical dimension in central and eastern European countries. While unemployment rates are still well below...

[eng] Monetary Union and Federalism Pierre-Alain Muet The prospect of monetary union has renewed an interest in an old theme of the economic and political literature : federalism. What lessons can be drawn from existing federations for the building of Europe ? The first part of the paper surveys...