The coming recovery
By the Analysis and Forecasting Department, under the direction of Eric Heyer and Xavier Timbeau This text summarises the OFCE 2015-2016 economic outlook for the euro […]
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Does housing wealth contribute to wealth inequality?
par Guillaume Allègre and Xavier Timbeau In a response to Capital in the twenty-first century, Odran Bonnet, Pierre-Henri Bono, Guillaume Chapelle and Etienne Wasmer (2014) attempt to show […]
The infinite clumsiness of the French budget
By Xavier Timbeau, @XTimbeau In the draft budgetary plan presented to the European Commission on 15 October 2014, it is clear that France fails to […]
Doesn’t real estate capital really contribute to inequality?
By Guillaume Allègre and Xavier Timbeau In a response to Capital in the twenty-first century, Odran Bonnet, Pierre-Henri Bono, Guillaume Chapelle and Etienne Wasmer (2014) […]
Unemployment insurance for the euro zone?
By Xavier Timbeau In the latest publication of France’s Treasury Department, Lettre Trésor-Eco, no. 132, June 2014 (Ministère des Finances et des Comptes publics and […]
The critique of capital in the 21st century: in search of the macroeconomic foundations of inequalities
By Guillaume Allègre and Xavier Timbeau In his book Capital in the 21st Century, Thomas Piketty offers a critical analysis of the dynamics of capital […]
The responsibility pact’s obligation of a result
By Xavier Timbeau, @XTimbeau, OFCE The original French text was published in the “Rebonds” section of the newspaper Libération on 28 February 2014. Is the policy supply-side or […]
Manic-depressive austerity: let’s talk about it!
By Christophe Blot, Jérôme Creel, and Xavier Timbeau Following discussions with our colleagues from the European Commission [1], we return to the causes of the […]
Important change of course at the Elysée Palace. Austerity is no longer the priority
By Xavier Timbeau, Twitter: @XTimbeau (published in Le Monde on Thursday 16 January 2014, p. 17) When he was elected François Hollande made fiscal discipline […]
From austerity to stagnation
By Xavier Timbeau Since 2010, the European Commission has published the Annual Growth Survey to stimulate discussion on the occasion of the European semester, during […]