From July to December 2011, the three-month EURIBOR-OIS and EURIBOR-Repo spreads quadrupled and reached more than 100 basis points. Contrary to the 2007-2008 crisis during the Euro zone debt crisis, this rise was caused by a stabilization of the EURIBOR combined with a decrease in the OIS and...

[fre] Les technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC) sont devenues, au cours des trente dernières années, un facteur très important de la croissance des économies développées. Mais l’évaluation quantitative de leur diffusion n’est pas simple. On s’attache dans ce qui...

[fre] Les effets de la diffusion des technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC) dans l’économie française peuvent être analysés à partir des données annuelles de la comptabilité nationale. Dans le cadre des hypothèses usuelles de la comptabilité de la croissance, des...

The present study contributes to the analysis of economic growth by comparing labour ant total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the very long run (since 1890) and in the medium run (since 1980). During the past century, the United States has...

The development and spread of information and communication technologies (ICTs) fuelled by the very rapid and steady improvement in their performance, lead to a sustained increase in productivity gains. These productivity gains are likely to increase the potential output growth, in the medium to...