Trump’s budget policy: Mortgaging the future?
By Christophe Blot While the momentum for growth has lost steam in some countries – Germany, France and Japan in particular – GDP in the […]
Fransceco Saraceno
The end of a cycle?
OFCE Analysis and Forecasting Department This text is based on the 2018-2019 outlook for the world economy and the euro zone, a full version of […]
The French economy: Lasting or transitory slowdown?
By the OFCE France team On Friday, April 27, the INSEE published the national accounts for the first quarter of 2018. With growth of 0.3%, […]
Italy: The horizon seems to be clearing
By Céline Antonin With growth in Italy of 0.4% in the third quarter of 2017 (see table below), the country’s economy seems to have recovered […]
The euro zone: A general recovery
By Christophe Blot This text is based on the 2017-2019 outlook for the global economy and the euro zone, a full version of which is […]
Renewed growth in the United Kingdom in 2013: trompe-l’oeil effects
By Catherine Mathieu The latest estimate of the British national accounts, published on 27 November, confirmed GDP growth of 0.8% in the third quarter of […]
The euro zone quartered
By Céline Antonin, Christophe Blot, Sabine Le Bayon and Danielle Schweisguth This text summarizes the OFCE’s 2013-2014 forecast for the euro zone economy. After six quarters […]
France: less austerity, more growth
By Eric Heyer This text summarizes the OFCE’s 2013-2014 forecast for the French economy. In 2013, the French economy should experience annual average growth of […]
Does too much finance kill growth?
By Jérôme Creel, Paul Hubert and Fabien Labondance Is there an optimal level of financialization in an economy? An IMF working paper written by Arcand, […]
A fiscal policy to promote structural reform – lessons from the German case
By Eric Heyer “France should copy Germany’s reforms to thrive”, Gerhard Schröder entitled an opinion piece in the Financial Times on 5 June 2013. As […]