[eng] French Investment Abroad and Rates of return Paule Arnaud-Ameller, Franck Portier, Ghislaine Salmat This paper deals with French direct investment and disinvestment abroad during the period 1976-1986. These flows are linked to economic rates of return in a geographical and sectorial...

[eng] Real Business Cycle, VAR Representation and the Openness of the French Economy Catherine Bruno, Franck Portier Two fruitful extensions of the RBC paradigm were recently developed. The first one concerns the open economy and is motivated by some empirical regularities in key international...

In a recent work (Hairault et al., 2006), we claim that the short distance to retirement constitutes one of the main economic mechanisms behind the low employment rate of older workers. As a result, delaying the retirement age could boost employment at the end of the working life. Our view has...