A model is developed that allows for interaction between the labor market and the housing market. A job location has an associated commuting time that may affect the job acceptance decision. Obstacles to mobility, such as regulations in the housing market will affect the reservation strategy of...

Les gouvernements sont régulièrement soumis à deux exigences difficiles à concilier : d’un côté, redresser les finances publiques, de l’autre, réduire le taux de prélèvements obligatoires. Depuis une trentaine d’années, celui-ci a fortement progressé, le solde public a toujours...

The availability of timely and reliable information on main macroeconomic variables is considered both by policy makers and analysts crucial for an effective process of decision making. Unfortunately official statistics cannot always meet adequately users' needs, especially concerning their...

This paper surveys the causes and consequences of late 19th century globalization, as well as the anti-globalization backlash of that period.

La loi sur la modernisation de l’économie (LME) a « pour ambition de relancer la concurrence ». Mais le projet de loi déposé se réduit, en fait, à une politique de l’indice des prix. En remontant de 300 à 1000 mètres carrés le seuil de déclenchement de la procédure...

This paper is aimed at showing the complementarity between Richardson's and Hicks' contributions as regards the sketching out of a proper analytical framework for dynamic analysis. These contributions deal with two essential analytical ingredients that the out-of-equilibrium analysis of...

Our findings indicate that the former split of CEECs in terms of business cycles synchronization with the euro area does not hold as soon as the recent period is taken into account. While Slovenia and Poland continue to appear as suitable EMU members due to their high – and growing – GDP...

As sociedades europeias são baseadas num compromisso entre, por um lado, o capitalismo, a propriedade privada e as forças do mercado e, por outro, o socialismo, a redistribuição e a produção pública. Uma parte importante das despesas das famílias é pública (educação, saúde); certos...

Designing its trade policy towards China, Europe should exert extreme foresightedness. Rather than to be trapped in bilateral trade balance conflicts (economically meaningless and politically hopeless), the EU should push for objectives that are attractive to its own interests, and to Chinese...

The audiovisual industry's evolution towards the digital era has enabled new actors to enter the market. Tivo Inc has positioned itself as a new comer on the home electronics market by offering both equipment - digital video recorders - and recording services. Although this offer is innovative...