France: Recovery … at last!
By Mathieu Plane, Bruno Ducoudré, Pierre Madec, Hervé Péléraux and Raul Sampognaro The OFCE’s forecast for the French economy in 2015-2016 is now available. Not since the […]
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France: gradual adjustments (forecasts)
2014-2015 outlook for the French economy By Éric Heyer, Marion Cochard, Bruno Ducoudré and Hervé Péléraux In 2013, the French economy grew at an annual […]
Euro zone: Recovery or deflation?
By Céline Antonin, Christophe Blot, Sabine Le Bayon and Danielle Schweisguth This text summarizes the OFCE’s forecast for 2014-2015 for the euro zone economy Will […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
What factors have put the brakes on growth since 2010?
By Eric Heyer and Hervé Péléraux At the end of 2012, five years after the start of the crisis, France’s GDP has still not returned […]
Holding to the required course
By Eric Heyer This text summarizes the OFCE’s 2013-2014 forecasts for the French economy. In 2013, the French economy should see negative annual average growth, with […]
Why France is right to abandon the 3% public déficit target by 2013
By Mathieu Plane Given the statements by the Minister of Economy and Finance, the government seems to have reached a decision to abandon the goal […]
So far so good …
By Christophe Blot The euro zone is still in recession. According to Eurostat, GDP fell again in the fourth quarter of 2012 (‑0.6%). This figure, […]