EMU countries have engaged in a consolidation of fiscal policies since 2011. This paper deals with the public debt and output dynamic consequences of this strategy. To thisend, we develop a simple macroeconomic modelof the Euro area, where fiscal multipliers time-varying. Recent empirical...

EMU countries have engaged in fiscal consolidation since 2011. This strategy has proven to be costly in terms of GDP. This cost has been amplified by the fact that fiscal multipliers are high in time of crisis, as recently stressed by the literature. Within this context, we wonder whether there...

Recent evidence has renewed views on the size of fiscal multipliers. It is notably emphasized that fiscal multipliers are higher in times of crisis. Starting from this literature, we develop a simple and tractable model to deal with the fiscal strategy led by euro area countries. Constrained by...

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De toutes les crises susceptibles de menacer l’expansion mondiale, celle des subprimes était la moins attendue. Au beau milieu de la trêve estivale, la révélation de l’implication d’institutions financières de renom dans les crédits immobiliers américains à risque a ricoché sur...

Depuis un an, l’économie mondiale s’est engagée sur la voie du redressement, après un choc récessif d’une ampleur sans précédent dans la période contemporaine. Les difficultés budgétaires de certains pays en zone euro ont déclenché une nouvelle crise financière au printemps...

After the 2008 recessionary shock, the world activity seems to have come to a standstill. In 2009, world output will fall by 1.3% ‘‘only’’ -2.5% in the US, 3.8% in the euro area and 5.9% in Japan. Thanks to expansionary public policies, the bank crisis and the deflation have been curbed....

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