[eng] In order to analyse French industrial export performance, this paper distinguishes three geographical areas : the EEC with nine countries ; the OECD minus the EEC ; and the rest of the world. This permits a better explanation of the récent détérioration in the manufacturing trade...

[eng] The need for economic policy coordination is particularly great in Europe given both the strong interdependence between European countries and the multiplicity of policymakers. With a two-country model, in which the countries can differ in their propensity to inflate or in their economic...

[eng] In this article the new version of the OFCE quarterly macroeconomic model of the French economy is presented. This model is used both for forecasts and economic policy analyses. The model basicallly of the neo-keynesian type, is desaggregating the economy into five sectors and six...

[eng] The forecasts presented in this article, predict that, as a result of a less favourable international environment, the French economic growth rate would settle at 3 % in 1990 and 1991, a lower rate than those of the last two years. The inflation rate would still be moderate (3,2 % in 1990,...

[eng] In most countries, the taxation of households' liquid and financial assets is distinct from that of other types of income. Compared to the present fiscal regimes in Germany and in the United States, the French system appears to be the most complex, whereas its incidence does not seem to be...

[eng] This article makes a comparison between the two experiments of fiscal reflation carried out in France over the past ten years. The reflation enforced by Mr. Chirac's Government in 1975 relied upon special social security benefits, high increases in private industrial and public investment,...

[eng] The French economic growth rate would be of 1.2 % in 1991, the lower rate ever recorded since 1984. Growth could be stronger in 1992, following that of industrial countries, if the investment growth was sustained enough. The main and most worrying problem of the economy remains the high...