[eng] This paper presents a series for the user cost of capital for France between 1963 and 1984. The user cost depends on the capital goods' price, the taxation's effect and the interest rate on firm's loans. The ratio « user cost of capital/labor's cost », which has decreased between 1963...

[eng] Since December the 18th firms can issue commercial papers ; moreover, starting in 1986, ail économie agents can buy Treasury bills registered in a current account in the Central Bank, which bills used to be exclusively at the disposai of financial institutions. Thèse financial...

[eng] This article discusses recent analyses of the real effects of monetary aggregates. Monetarists, at first, then proponents of the New Classical Economics, in a more extreme fashion, have contended that systematic monetary policies have no influence on production or employment. However...

[eng] The economic growth for 1986-1987 will widely depend on and firms reactions for the reverses oil crisis. If they are going to use income transfers to reduce their debt, the growth will remain Home — saving would substitute the external debt in order to finance same investment amount....

[eng] The new Parliament opens in a very different international context from that faced by recent governments. The « reverse oil crisis », accentuated by the fall in the exchange rate of the dollar, will simultaneously improve all four corners of the French economy's « magic square » :...

[eng] Exports have been rapidly increasing in South Korea and the Republic of China (Taiwan) over the past 20 years. The ratio of exports to GDP has soared, but so has the ratio of imports to GDP. Thus, extemal trade did not provide a direct source of growth before the mid 70's in Taiwan, the...

[eng] The collapse of oil prices together with the depreciation of the dollar fail to bring the world economy back to its pre-oil shock situation. At the beginning of spring, the real price of oil is still twice what it was at the end of 1973. Besides, many decisions in the field of investment...

[eng] The decline of marriage, both massive and historically unprecedented goes with an important rise of cohabitation, illegitimate births, celibacy and divorces, in fact less and less followed by a remarriage. Thus a marked increase in the number of single-headed families. Is married couple be...

[eng] The favourable impact on OECD countries of the decline of oil prices, amplified in most cases by the depreciation of the US dollar, have been long awaited for. Households have increased their savings rate before starting to spend their additional income. Entreprises, anticipating...

[eng] Economic growth slowed down after the sharp recovery of 1983-1984 and has remained sluggish over the past two years. Now that it is well advanced, the present business cycle does not look very dynamic. An upsurge of inflation has been prevented so far, but both fiscal and foreign deficits...