Bank fragility: What consequences for economic growth and its relationship with bank loans?
Jérôme Creel and Fabien Labondance The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has rekindled concern about the solidity of the US banking system and, via […]
The UK budget: From support to austerity
By Hervé Péléraux With the latest national accounts published on 22 December 2022 showing a 0.3% fall in GDP in Q3 of 2022, following a […]
Has inflation in the euro zone peaked?
By Christophe Blot For the first time since June 2021, inflation, as measured by the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), has fallen in the […]
War in Ukraine and rising international tension: What impact on GDP?
By Raul Sampognaro The invasion of Ukraine launched by Russia on 24 February 2022[1] dealt a major shock to the European economy, which was already […]
How do rising interest rates impact French economic growth? An overview of macroeconometric models
By Elliot Aurissergues The year 2022 was marked by a sharp inflationary surge in the United States and the euro zone. At the end of […]
How effective are economic sanctions?
By Céline Antonin This topic was the subject of a conference entitled “Sanctioning a country’s economy – A solution?” on 16 November 2022 as part […]
Reforming the Growth and Stability Pact: The Commission has fallen on the debt
By Jérôme Creel In its communication of 9 November 2022, the European Commission outlined the contours of the new European fiscal framework that should, in […]
United States: Slowdown or recession?
by Christophe Blot In the first quarter of 2022, US GDP fell by 0.4%, ending the recovery that had begun in the summer of 2020. […]
Can the US Federal Reserve bring inflation back to 2%?
by Christophe Blot At the monetary policy meeting on 16 March 2022, the Federal Reserve raised its interest rate by a quarter point to 0.5%[1]. […]
Jean-Paul Fitoussi, brilliant economist and public intellectual, by Xavier Ragot
Born on 19 August 1942 in La Goulette (Tunisia), died on 15 April 2022 in Paris The economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi passed away on 15 April […]