Focusing on gender issues, this paper compares old age pension systems in Germany, France and Italy and assesses the recent reforms. General rules for calculating pensions and the incidence of work behaviour and wage levels on the benefit?'s level are described. Entitlements aimed at mitigating...

This paper presents a new leading indicator of UK output growth. The purpose of the indicator is to forecast quarterly GDP growth over a two-quarter horizon, using industrial production, capacity utilisation, the retail sales index, a wholesale trade survey factor, a financial survey factor and...

This paper provides an outline of the first EUROFRAME conference on fiscal policies in the European Union held in Paris, 4 June 2004. Seven topics were addressed: 1) Assessment of European fiscal policies since 1990. 2) Fiscal policy effectiveness: any evidence of anti-Keynesian effects? 3)...