No love lost for Chinese investors!
By Sarah Guillou In his speech of 15 January 2017, France’s Minister of Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire, speaks of “plundering investments”, suspecting Chinese […]
Articles by Laurence Duboys Fresney
High-frequency trading and regulatory policies. A tale of market stability vs. market resilience
by Sandrine Jacob Leal and Mauro Napoletano Over the past decades, high-frequency trading (HFT) has sharply increased in US and European markets. HFT represents a […]
Is it possible to experiment with a universal income?
By Guillaume Allègre, @g_allegre In a blog entitled “Revenu universel, l’impossible expérimentation” [Universal income, the impossible experiment], I underlined the limits of current and future experiments […]
The Janus-Faced Nature of Debt
by Mattia Guerini, Alessio Moneta, Mauro Napoletano, Andrea Roventini The financial and economic crises of 2008 have been intimately interwined with the dynamics of debt. […]
France’s RSA income support: 35% lack of take-up?
By Guillaume Allègre, @g_allegre The lack of take-up of France’s RSA income supplement benefit is often invoked as an argument for reforming the system for […]
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 […]
What role for central bank balance sheets in the conduct of monetary policy?
By Christophe Blot, Jérôme Creel and Paul Hubert By adjusting the size and composition of their balance sheets, the central banks have profoundly changed their monetary policy […]
Short-term contracts: Not all taxes are the same
By Bruno Coquet, OFCE and IZA Short-term contracts are useful for the proper functioning of an economy, but in France their expansion, together with shortening […]
Brexit: Pulling off a success?
By Catherine Mathieu and Henri Sterdyniak Will the EU summit of 14-15 December 2017 usher in a new phase of negotiations on the exit of […]