Give Recovery a Chance
By iAGS team, under the direction of Xavier Timbeau The ongoing recovery of the Euro Area (EA) economy is too slow to achieve a prompt […]
Month: November 2015
A standard contract for France: a potluck approach?
By Jacques Barthélémy and Gilbert Cette The debate over a single standard contract [contrat unique] generally arises in relation to the duality of the labour […]
Should we be worried about the slowdown in China?
By Eric Heyer China’s growth is slowing. This does not really come as a surprise: the slowdown was announced by the Chinese authorities; it can […]
The potential headache of measuring economies in public expenditure
By Raul Sampognaro Since 2009, the French budget deficit has been cut by 3.3 GDP points, from 7.2 percent of GDP in 2009 to 3.9 […]
The labour market: is the unemployment rate a good indicator?
By Bruno Ducoudré and Pierre Madec Considering the euro zone on the one hand and the United States and the United Kingdom on the other, changes […]
The French economy on the road to recovery
by Hervé Péléraux The publication of the INSEE’s business surveys on October 22 confirms the French economy’s positive situation in the second half of 2015, […]
The labour market on the road to recovery
By Bruno Ducoudré A look at the figures just published by France’s Pôle Emploi job centre for the month of September 2015 shows that the […]
An ever so fragile recovery
By the Department of Analysis and Forecasting, under the direction of Eric Heyer and Xavier Timbeau This text summarizes the OFCE’s economic forecast for 2015-2017 for the […]
Investing in the zero carbon economy in order to escape secular stagnation
By Xavier Timbeau What the downward revisions of various forecasts (IMF, OECD, OFCE) presented in early autumn 2015 tell us about the euro zone is not very […]