Banking union: a solution to the euro crisis?
By Maylis Avaro and Henri Sterdyniak The European summit on 28th and 29th June marked a new attempt by Europe’s institutions and Member states to […]
Fiscal policy
Financing higher education: Should students have to pay?
By Guillaume Allègre and Xavier Timbeau Is it necessary to ensure that a greater portion of the cost of higher education is borne by students […]
The euro zone in crisis: challenges for monetary and fiscal policies
By Catherine Mathieu and Henri Sterdyniak The 9th EUROFRAME conference [1] was held on 8 June 2012 in Kiel on issues concerning the economic policy […]
European Council: wait and sink?
By Jérôme Creel, Paul Hubert and Francesco Saraceno The European Council meeting being held at the end of the week should have been spent, according […]
Would returning to the drachma be an overwhelming tragedy?
by Céline Antonin Following the vote in the Greek parliamentary elections on 17 June 2012, the spectre of the country leaving the euro zone has […]
Taxes on wealth: what kind of reform?
By Guillaume Allègre, Mathieu Plane and Xavier Timbeau Why and how should wealth be taxed? Are France’s wealth taxes fair and efficient? In an article […]
Japan’s reconstruction: constrained by the deterioration in public finances
By Bruno Ducoudré Following the earthquake that hit Japan in March 2011, the government estimated the cost of the loss at 16.9 trillion yen (3.6 […]
Fiscal reform: Now or never*
By Nicolas Delalande (Centre d’histoire at Sciences Po) While the question of taxation was one of the major economic issues of the presidential election, it […]
Underlying deflation
Christophe Blot, Marion Cochard, Bruno Ducoudré and Eric Heyer A look at the latest statistics on price trends indicates that the risk of deflation seems […]
Less austerity = more growth and less unemployment
Eric Heyer and Xavier Timbeau The European Commission has just released its spring forecast, which anticipates a recession in 2012 for the euro zone (“mild” […]