Based on optimal currency area theories, this paper applies the empirical methodology of structural VAR to revisit the question of whether UK should join or not the Euro zone. Correlations of effective exchange rates between UK and US on one side and between UK and its major European partners...

A lack of economic convergence among euro member countries seems to be feeding euro-skepticism. Using a Structural Vector Auto Regression model combined with a time varying correlation analysis, we attempt to test the endogeneity theory for the three core euro members, i.e., France, Germany, and...

This unique and fascinating book illustrates that the ‘credit crunch’ and the ensuing financial and economic crisis of 2007–2009 did not only strike hard at the economy in the Western world, but also at its policymakers, at economics as a scientific discipline and, more...

This paper studies the evolution and determinants of US interfirm trade between 1989-98. We will extend preview: similar econometric testing not only by using more recent data but also by considering inter-country differences In addition to inter-sectoral variation of interfirm trade. At the...

</titre> Using World Bank data base 'Global Preferential Trade Agreements', with a sample of 268 agreements, the paper analyses environmental clauses that these agreements may contain, with a special view on those implying parties from both advanced and emerging economies. A qualitative approach helps...

En s'appuyant sur la base de données de la Banque Mondiale " Global Preferential Trade Agreements Data Base (GPTAD) " qui recense plus de 268 accords de libre échange, la communication propose une analyse des clauses environnementales pouvant figurer dans ces accords, en particulier dans les...

[eng] This paper first lists the main explanations of the specific difficulties youth encounter when entering the labour market. After having briefly reviewed social policy measures targeted for young people, it presents an econometric study of their access to employ­ment or to social measures....