In 2002 we published a paper in which we used state space time series methods to analyse the teenage employment‐federal minimum wage relationship in the US (Bazen and Marimoutou, 2002). The study used quarterly data for the 46 year period running from 1954 to 1999. We detected a small,...

The paper attempts to construct political influence variables and explain discrepancies in fund disbursement through proper econometric specification in the Indian context.

The work of Card and Krueger has cast doubt on the nature of the relationship between the minimum wage and teenage employment. The earlier "consensus" finding of a small but statistically significant negative effect was based on time series data whereas Card and Krueger's findings are based...

[eng] The effects of interest rate changes in the new french financial environment. We study to what extent the effects of changes in short and long term interest rates on the components of aggregate demand were modified in France by financial deregulation in the mid-eighties. The use of a...

[fre] Les fondamentaux permettent-ils d'améliorer la prévision du taux de change franc-dollar ? . . Nous étudions dans quelle mesure on peut mettre en évidence une relation de long terme entre le taux de change quotidien franc-dollar au comptant et certains fondamentaux tels que les taux...

[eng] Problems of measurement of the credibility of an exchange rate target zone. . Recent breakthroughs in the theory of exchange rate target zones have not been followed by similar contributions on the empirical side. Most of the estimates of expected depre­ciation inside the band do not take...

In 2002 we published a paper in which we used state space time series methods to analyse the teenage employment-federal minimum wage relationship in the US (Bazen and Marimoutou, 2002). The study used quarterly data for the 46 year period running from 1954 to 1999. We detected a small, negative...