[fre] Social Protection and European Economic Integration In fhe future, the problems faced by the European schemes of social protection will become more acute: the ageing of the population and the growing health expenditures will place increased pressure on national schemes. At the same time,...

[eng] Describing the Economic Cycle Jacky Fayolle This paper presents and comments the descriptive techniques currently used by the OECD in cyclical analysis. This set of techniques is interesting from at least two points of view. First, the methodology is based upon former research in the...

[eng] From one Bundesbank to the next ? Germany's central Bank as a model for Europe Thomas Fricke How will the European Central Bank work ? Will the policy of monetary authorities in Europe look like that of the german Central Bank, an institution that has been used as a model in Maastricht's...

[eng] The Single Market and the External Trade From the Treaty of Rome to the Single Market, the Community's trade policy has been one of transforming a closed commercial space into a single market where goods and services are freely mobile. However, the construction of Europe has not...

[eng] Strength makes union Département des diagnostics As the United States are witnessing a maturing expansion phase, Europe and Japan have not yet got out of the recession. With no inflationary pressures, the United States have some leeway to grow, allowed for by a still accomodating money...

[eng] The European Banking and Financial Marketplace In Europe as in all other industrialized economies, financial activity has undergone sweeping and unprecedented changes and expansion during the 80s'. Such well-known developments as deregulation, internationalization and financial innovations...