The simulation of a model with rational expectations requires the solution of a system of difference equations with initial and terminal conditions over an infinite time period. This paper first considers the linear case and investigates the kind of errors which result from the substitution of a...

This paper gives an interpretation of the working of the EMS in the eighties. On one hand French franc, Belgium franc, and Irish pound, appear to have been stabilized around implicit central parities, which were revised from time to time. On the other hand, lira and Danish crown have followed a...

This paper describes a small dynamic model of the French economy in a situation of imperfect competition on all markets, with some nominal rigidity and part of households facing a liquidity constraint. Economic agents optimise over time. One of the features of this model is that the labour...

This paper considers a disequilibrium model of the French economy. This model includes a tradable and a nontradable sectors, investment behaviours of these sectors, and has been estimated over the period 1964/4-1984/4. A regime of excess demand had prevailed in the tradable goods sector from...