Rapport pour l'OCDE, 3 mars 2008

In this contribution, we study the organization and the funding mechanisms of higher education. We show that higher education is organized and funded very differently among OECD countries. We put forward the fact that this heterogeneity in its organization and funding corresponds to different...

[eng] Fiscal federalism and european stabilization. . The future European Union shed light on fiscal policies. We study in this article the ability of fiscal federalism to stabilize macroeconomic fluctuations. More particularly, we evaluate the stabilizing effects of automatic stabilizers and...

[eng] Assessing the evolution of volatility shocks persistence on the foreign exchange market from the beginning of the 80's. . This paper aims at determining whether the persistence of volatility shocks on the major foreign exchange markets (DEM and YEN) has changed since the beginning of the...