Spain: a 2018 budget on target, if the Commission likes it or not
By Christine Rifflart With a deficit of 3.1% of GDP in 2017, Spain has cut its deficit by 1.4 points from 2016 and has been […]
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France’s growth in 2018-2019: What the forecasters say …
By Sabine Le Bayon and Christine Rifflart Following the INSEE’s publication of the first version of the accounts for the fourth quarter of 2017 and […]
Oil: carbon for growth
By Céline Antonin, Bruno Ducoudré, Hervé Péléraux, Christine Rifflart, Aurélien Saussay This text is based on the special study of the same name [Pétrole : du carbone […]
Devaluation through wages in the euro zone: a lose-lose adjustment
by Sabine Le Bayon, Mathieu Plane, Christine Rifflart and Raul Sampognaro Since the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008 and the sovereign debt crisis in […]
On the difficulty of carrying out structural reforms in a period of high unemployment
By Sabine Le Bayon, Mathieu Plane, Christine Rifflart and Raul Sampognaro Structural reforms aimed at developing a more flexible labour market are often attributed all the […]
What’s masked by the fall in US unemployment rates
By Christine Rifflart Despite the further decline in the US unemployment rate in December, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released last week confirms […]
America’s fiscal headache
By Christine Rifflart Before next December 13th, the Budget Conference Committee must present the results of the discussions begun following the shutdown and debt crisis […]
No surprises from the Fed*
By Christine Rifflart Not surprisingly, at its meeting on 29 and 30 October the Monetary Policy Committee of the US Federal Reserve decided to maintain […]
Shut down: America in the spotlight
By Christine Rifflart A State that asks a third of its civil servants to stay home because it can’t pay them is in a critical […]
Rent control: will the ALUR law be sufficient?
By Sabine Le Bayon, Pierre Madec and Christine Rifflart On 10 September 2013, Parliament began discussing the bill on “Access to housing and urban renovation […]