The COVID-19 pandemic and the pressure it has created on member states’ public finances have led European authorities to suspend the EU’s fiscal rules. In fact, these rules had long been criticised by academics and had only been abided by exceptionally. Beyond the rules themselves, the...

This paper tries to improve the understanding of the French interwar monetary situation by using thoroughly one indicator: long-term interest rates. As such, it could be attacked from a methodological point of view as relying excessively on that indicator and on a small number of hypothesis...

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[eng] Estimation of metal money in france at the end of the XIXth century. . Between 1878 and 1909, six monetary surveys were carried out in France. The dates of mintage of the coins which were in the cash-boxes of the State and of the major banks were taken. Alfred de Foville who initiated...

[fre] La désinflation en France : 1982-1985 . . L'article analyse les différentes causes du ralentissement clés prix intervenus entre 1982 et 1985. Pour ce faire on construit un modèle décrivant la boucle prix-salaires : le prix de la valeur ajoutée dépend des coûts salariaux et les...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the pressure it has created on member states' public finances have led European authorities to suspend the EU's fiscal rules. In fact, these rules had long been criticised by academics and had only been abided by exceptionally. Beyond the rules themselves, the lessons...