[eng] Excessive production costs for French firms are often seen as a prominent cause of their poor performances in terms of employment, exports and investment. Business taxes higher in France than abroad are currently presented as a major villain, especially so since labor costs growth has been...

[eng] For lack of data, economists have systematically performed an analysis in terms of flows and ignored the stocks. Now, in France there are wealth accounts, from 1970 and for every agent of the national accounting. The household wealth, easier to evaluate, may be retropolated and its longrun...

[eng] Interest rates, deflated by the présent and forecast price changes, are very high, compared with the average of the last thirty years. Will that last ? If so, will the recovery be impeded ? What part can each économie agent play in such a context ? Enlightening thèse issues brings us to...

[eng] The strong and fast decrease of inflation rate, that French economy had just experienced, has large patrimonial consequences. Inflation brings about reallocations and destortions, the cancelling of which alters, for each economic sector, the relation between income, saving and patrimonial...

[eng] Whereas the seventies' had been characterized by major changes in the relative prices of goods and services, the rise in real interest rates, from 1980 on, has initiated an era of turmoil in the financial markets. The various relative price shocks — the oil price hikes, the rising real...

[eng] This article surveys the économie platforms of the présent opposition parties and tries to estimate their macroeconomic impact. Thèse platforms put forward a tangible cutting down of the total tax revenue as percentage of GDP focussing on corporate taxes. At the same time, public...

[eng] Data available since the publication in July of the article entitled « What will follow and unprecedented international economic situation ? » confirm the uniqueness of a depreciation of the dollar that has not yet induced an increase in dollar termes of the prices of raw materials and...

[eng] When the « debt crisis » started in 1982, some observers feared that the worldwide recession could bring about a large scale financial crisis. Although the events after 1983 have in some respect reassured the banking community, the debt ratios of many developing countries remain high and...

[eng] As requested by the economic administrations of some African countries, the OFCE Econometric Department was led to build and finalize short and medium term forecasting models different from those currently used in the developed countries. This paper presents the model built for the...