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Useful information when travelling to France


CLIMATE


Coastal, continental, mountainous and Mediterrnean, the climate in France is temperate. France enjoys mild temperatures throughout the year: not too hot and not too cold, with a plentiful mix of rainfall and sunshine. Naturally, each region has its own particular climate: cooler and...
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Visits in and around Toulouse


Feeling adventurous? Toulouse is the gateway to the Midi-Pyrénées and the Languedoc-Roussillon region, an ideal starting point to discover exceptional surrounding sites.


1. A trip in the vineyards


The Midi-Pyrenees vineyards are awaiting you! Try out a weekend in Armagnac, a holiday in the...
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F.I.N.E.T


Project summary


"The general theme of this research is to introduce the notion of large-scale economic networks into the mainstream of economics, in particular in macroeconomics and international trade. Economic agents often do not have access to all the relevant information they may need:...
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InfoMacro


Project summary (en anglais)


The objective of the research is to propose unified treatment of the effects of dispersed information for fluctuations in asset markets and the real economy. The premise that different economic agents have access to different information sources, and hence hold...
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Solsys


Project summary


The general purpose of this research project is to improve our scientific understanding of the risk-taking of financial intermediaries, the sources and structure of systemic risk and to investigate new directions regarding risk measurement and optimal regulation of the...
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ACAP


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The main objective of this research project is to contribute to bridging the gap between the two main branches of financial theory, namely corporate finance and asset pricing. It is motivated by a strongly held belief that these two aspects of financial activity, which are...
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RIFIFI


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The last twenty years witnessed two important evolutions in financial markets. First, a rapid pace of financial innovation has made it possible to slice, transfer, and combine a large variety of risks by trading of a rich set of derivatives. Second, the management of increasing...
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TAP


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Two of the main functions of financial markets are to discover equilibrium prices, thus providing useful information to the economy, and to enable investors to realize mutually beneficial trades. However, informational frictions and opportunistic behaviour can hinder the...
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Long-Term-Risks


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A striking aspect of the recent debate on the climate change is the transfer of the hottest scientific challenges from the so-called hard sciences (climatology, oceanography, chemistry,…) to economics. Still, the economic community is much divided on the way to approach long-...
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DYSMOIA


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The objective of this project is to enhance knowledge in the construction, identification and estimation of dynamic structural microeconomic models that are used for policy evaluation. This research project is built up having specific economic applications in mind as these...
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