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tests based on the null hypothesis of no cointegration (tests of Pedroni, Kao, Bai and Ng, Groen and Kleibergen) and the McCoskey and Kao test based on the null hypothesis of cointegration. Some developments relating to the comparison of the size and power of tests, inference and estimation of cointegrated systems are also provided. Keywords : non-stationary panel data, unit root, cointegration. J.E.L. Classification : C23, C33. 1 Introduction Depuis les travaux pionniers de Levin et Lin (1992)

reform is the critical missing element needed to move humanity back from the brink of economic destruction and nuclear disaster, away from a future dominated by fraud, ugliness and warfare, toward a world of justice and beauty. The power to create money is an awesome power – at times stronger than the Executive, Legislative and Judicial powers combined. It’s like having a “magic checkbook,” where checks can’t bounce. When controlled privately it can be used to gain riches, but much more importantly

COUNTRIES EXTERNAL ANALYSIS PESTEL PESTEL FRANCE France is a Constitutional Republic, we are in its Vth Republic since 1958 The actual president is Nicolas Sarkozy There are three powers :Executive, Legislative and Judiciary. The legislative power is shared by the National assembly and the Senate. The European policy : Since 1945, Europe became the principal line of development of the French foreign policy. France supports the establishment of new companies, for example the Toyota plant in Valenciennes

that further progress will require radical urban, land, and fiscal reforms, along with greater political efforts to combat gender and racial discrimination. This background paper was written as a contribution to the development of From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change the World, Oxfam International 2008. It is published in order to share widely the results of commissioned research and programme experience. The views it expresses are those of the author and do

Organization of the United Nations, FAOSTAT database. Data available online at: http://faostat.fao.org. Col. (12) GDP per capita (PPP): Per capita gross domestic product converted to current international dollars using purchasing power parity (PPP) rates. Purchasing power parity (PPP) conversion factors take into account differences in the relative prices of goods and services and therefore provide a better overall measure for the purposes of intercountry comparisons than GDP measured at currency-market

(table 1, consumer price index). This inflation policy aims at taking advantage of low inflation benefits that are mainly: • Consumers and businesses are better able to make long-range plans because they know that their money is not losing its purchasing power year after year. • Sustained low inflation is self-reinforcing. Businesses and individuals do not react so quickly to short-term price pressures by seeking to raise prices and wages if they are confident that inflation is under long-term control

002  trillion  (2009)   $1.111  trillion;  (2009)   The  People's  Republic  of  China  is  the  world's  second  largest  economy  after  the  United  States  by   purchasing   power   parity   ($8.77   trillion   in   2009).   China   is   the   world's   fastest-­‐growing   major   economy,   with   average   growth   rates   of   10%   for   the   past   30

Atlantic oceans. France has been a major power for many centuries, with strong economic, military, educational and political influence. The politics it keeps leads to high standard of living; high public education level; one of the best healthcare systems in the world and also – one of the world’s high life-expectancies. It comes as not a big surprise that it possesses the fifth largest economy by nominal GDP and seventh largest economy by purchasing power parity. France is divided into 26 administrative

: Conflit principal-agent Probability distribution : Distribution de probabilité Purchasing power parity : Parité des pouvoirs d'achat Pure discount bond : Obligation à coupon zéro Put : Option de vente Put-call parity relation : Parité put-call ; Relation de parité put-call Rate of return : Taux de rentabilité Real future value : Valeur future réelle Real interest rate : Taux d'intérêt réel Real interest rate parity : Parité des taux d'intérêts réels Real price : Prix réel Redemption value : Valeur

franc. In 1987, the bank adopts the designation “Bank Al-Maghrib” in all languages and opens «Dar As-Sikkah», an industrial unit printing banknotes and minting coins. In 1993, Bank Al-Maghrib confirms its role as the bank of banks with reinforced power in regulating and monitoring credit institutions activity. In 2006, the new Statutes of Bank Al-Maghrib and the new Banking Act confer further independence on the bank in the conduct of monetary policy and banking supervision. This independence implies