[eng] Wealth effects and consumer spending in the US and the UK Corinne Houizot, Helene Baudchon, Catherine Mathieu and Francisco Serranito The sharp rise in stock market priees over the second half of the 90's is said to have boosted household consumption in the US. Changes in housing and net...

[eng] Some uncertainty Forecast for the world economy in 2000 and 2001 Division Economie Internationale World GDP is expected to decelerate from 4.8 percent in 2000, the fastest rate of growth since 1984, to 4.1 in 2001. The raise in oil priees and the tightening of monetary policies over the...

[eng] All together ? Forecast for the world economy in 2000 and 2001 Division economie internationale Activity is expected to expand rapidly in many parts of the world economy (4,2 % in 2000 and 3,9 % in 2001), except in Japan where an excess of capacity still impediments growth. Asian emerging...

In this paper we study the long-run determinants of current account balances in 21 OECD countries. We define long-run targets to determine whether actual current account balances are in line with their equilibrium values and find that, following the crisis, the United States, Japan and Spain...

This paper investigates the link between trade and convergence in per capita income by applying a threshold methodology to standard growth regressions in order to capture a nonlinear effect of trade on growth. We use 10 trade measures, divided into trade intensity ratios and measure of trade...

Long run convergence implies that the convergence hypothesis will be rejected if the income differential is not stationary. However, this definition is valid only if the catching-up process between the two countries is already over. If we take into account catching-up dynamics, then poorest...