International Events

Economic Rendez-vous of the Mediterranean 2014

Cercle des économistes   |   8 November 2014

“What contribution the Social and Solidarity Economy can it provide to the development in the Mediterranean ?”   Organization: The tenth conference of RV Med, organized by the Institute of the Mediterranean/Femise & the Cercle des économistes will be held in Marseilles at the Villa...

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Options for a Euro-area fiscal capacity

Jean PISANI-FERRY   |   10 January 2013

Europe has responded to the crisis with strengthened budgetary and macroeconomic surveillance, the creation of the European Stability Mechanism, liquidity provisioning by resilient economies and the European Central Bank and a process towards a banking union. However, a monetary union requires...

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Should the G20 agree to current-account balance targets?

Jean PISANI-FERRY   |   5 November 2010

The hard question is how to meet the targets US TREASURY Secretary Tim Geithner has recently proposed that the G20 countries “undertake policies consistent with reducing external imbalances below a specified share of GDP”. Countries “running persistent deficits should boost national...

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