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After the 2008 recessionary shock, the world activity seems to have come to a standstill. In 2009, world output will fall by 1.3% ‘‘only’’ -2.5% in the US, 3.8% in the euro area and 5.9% in Japan. Thanks to expansionary public policies, the bank crisis and the deflation have been curbed....

À l’occasion du « Grenelle de l’environnement », la France a affiché volonté nouvelle et forte en matière de lutte contre le changement climatique. Si le gouvernement a l’intention de la mettre pleinement en œuvre, il lui faut dès à présent introduire dans la fiscalité...

The Mortensen-Pissarides model with unemployment benefits and taxes has been able to account for the variation in unemployment rates across countries but does not explain why geographical mobility is very low in some countries (on average, three times lower in Europe than in the U.S.). We build...

Confidence and trust have flown away: such seems to be the inevitable conclusion during these times of economic stagnation and collapsing banking system. It has thus become urgent to define more clearly the boundaries of that blurred and elusive notion, which is what Éloi Laurent proposes here...

In its latest Report on the “financial and economic crisis and trade-related developments” (26 March 2009), the WTO used the term “significant slippage” to qualify changes in protection observed from late 2008 to March 2009. Most of the newspapers in the world translated these terms into...

Cross-border mergers and acquisitions activities (M&As) sharply increased over the last two decades, partly as a result of financial liberalization policies, government policies and regional agreements. In this paper, we identify some of the main forces driving M&As, using a unique database on...

Plus sensible à la conjoncture internationale, par le rôle moteur du commerce extérieur, l'Allemagne a subi de plein fouet l'effondrement de l'investissement et de la demande mondiale. En France, les enchaînements observés ont été assez proches - contraction de l'investissement et du...

L’indemnisation du chômage s’appuie en France sur trois composantes, aux logiques et publics en principe séparés : un régime d’assurance à gestion paritaire, des prestations de solidarité et le RMI. La volonté des partenaires sociaux de maintenir l’autonomie financière du...

In mainstream economics individuals are supposed driven only by their self interest. By contrast, in this article, in the line of a "new synthesis" in moral psychology we assert that the voting behavior over redistribution is best characterized by first an automatic cognitive process which...