Detrending time series and isolating cyclical fluctuations is crucial for business cycle analysis and definition of economic policy. Band-pass filters provide a set of statistical methods to extract the cycle, defined according to a specified range of periodicities. Christiano and Fitzgerald...

Inspired of the decrease of the prices of oil between January 2014 and January 2016, this article wonders about the capacity of resilience of the congolese economy in relation to the decrease of the mining product prices noticed since June 2015. The econometric analysis teaches that that a...

French Abstract: Inspirée de la baisse des cours du pétrole entre janvier 2014 et janvier 2016, cet article s'interroge sur la capacité de résilience de l'économie congolaise face à la baisse des cours des produits miniers remarquée depuis juin 2015. Des analyses économétriques...