Cet article cherche à expliciter la signification et le rôle de l'hypothèse de marchés financiers complets dans les modèles d'évaluation des options. Son objectif est de manifester la force et la nécessité des hypothèses faites dans ce type de modèles sur l'évolution du prix de...

[eng] Rational expectations and information revealed by prices : an introduction. Catherine Rouzaud. This paper is intended to introduce some recent studies on rational expectations in general equilibrium theory under asymmetric information. In order to clarify the basis of this literature, the...

In several OECD countries age-targeted wage subsidies have been introduced to increase the employment of older workers, but evidence on their effectiveness is scarce. This paper examines the effects of a permanent wage cost subsidy in Belgium on the employment rate, working time and hourly wage....

We study the impact of graduating in a recession in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. in a rigid labor market. In the presence of a high minimum wage, a typical recession hardly influences the hourly wage of low educated men, but reduces working time and earnings by about 4.5% up to twelve years after...

Beyond natural sterility, there are two main types of childlessness: one driven by poverty and another by the high opportunity cost to child-rearing. We argue that taking childlessness and its causes into account matters for assessing the impact of development policies on fertility. We measure...

Agents can learn from financial markets to predict macroeconomic outcomes and learning dynamics can feed back into both the macroeconomy and financial markets. This paper builds on the adaptive learning (AL) model of Slobodyan andWouters (2012b) by introducing the term structure of interest...