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This paper presents a critical assessment of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP). Section 2 recalls the fiscal policy framework in the euro area. Section 3 provides an...

The aim of this paper is to provide simple nonparametric methods to estimate finitemixture models from data with repeated measurements. Three measurements suffice for...

Tax to GDP ratios stand at around 40%in EU countries as compared with 25% in Japan and the US. This high level of taxation allows the funding of the European social...

This work presents the main advantages of the use of longitudinal data for the sociological research on the assimilation process. Two fundamental issues will be...

Le recueil d'un semainier dans lequel les personnes actives ont noté leurs heures de travail pendant une semaine lors de l'enquête "Emploi du temps" menée par l'Insee...

Social representations of the greenhouse effect For the third time since spring 2000, the Ademe (French Agency for Environment and Energy Management) has conducted a...

La mesure du bien-être matériel d'une société et de son évolution est une question qui reste ouverte. On propose ici un indicateur nouveau fondé sur la prise en compte...

Unemployment may depend on equilibrium in other markets than the labor markets. This paper adresses this old idea by introducing search frictions on several markets:...

In an economy with search on credit and labor markets, a financial multiplier raises the elasticity of labor market tightness to productivity shocks. This multiplier...

Building a model with three imperfect markets - goods, labor and credit - representing a product's life-cyle, we find that goods market frictions drastically change...

Certains se réjouiront des déconvenues britanniques. Le gouvernement britannique a causé son propre isolement, sans prendre soin de nouer des alliances ni de limiter...

The recent crisis has deeply changed the environment in which the EC-Turkey Custom Union (ECT) will develop. The world trade in goods was experiencing its worst...

The "Doha Round" may be finished in 2011, more than ten years after having been officially launched.2 A detailed description of the negotiations over such a long...

In this paper, I relate the degree of progressivity of the income tax scheme to the prevailing income inequality in the society. I find that, consistent with the data,...

Au cours de l'hiver dernier, le territoire français a été bouleversé par une tempête don l'intensité a surpris aussi bien les spécialistes que le grand public et dont...

On reproche souvent aujourd'hui au Parti Vert Français de moins se préoccuper d'enjeux environnementaux (l'effet de serre, la politique énergétique) que d'enjeux...

Abstract : Members of Parliament and Environment During the last twenty years, many researches have been conducted in France and in the UE about public attitudes...

Wage determination under asymmetric information generates ine¢ ciencies due to excess turnover. Severance pay and layo¤ taxes can improve e¢ ciency. We show that...

Les inondations qui ont frappé la Thaïlande au mois d'octobre et coûté la vie à plus de cinq cents personnes sont les plus graves que le pays ait connues depuis plus...

The European Community (the correct legal term in trade matters, hereafter EC) is still a recent and ongoing process. Fifty years is a short time span for such an...