French observatory of the economic conjunctures
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The French Observatoire of economic conjunctures (OFCE) is a center of research and economic forecast created in February 1981 on the initiative of the Prime Minister Raymond Barre at the same time as IPECODE (employers') and the ANGERS (trade-union).
It was created within the national Fondation of political sciences within the framework of a convention with the State.
The mission of the OFCE “is to put at the service of the public debate in economy the fruits of the scientific rigor and university independence”.
Its posted objective “is to put at the service of the public debate in economy the fruits of the scientific rigor and university independence”; however, the OFCE makes watch of a bias of left, in favor of political of the request keynésienne and of budgetary laxism.
It was directed of 1981 with 1989 by Jean-Marcel Jeanneney, and since by Jean-Paul Fitoussi.
It gathers more than thirty researchers divided in four departments (twenty researchers in the beginning):
- Département Analyzes and forecast
- Département Economy of universalization
- Département of the Studies
- Département Innovation and competition
In 1997, the OFCE was pointed out by its standpoint in favor of the 35 hours. He had written in his Lettre of the OFCE, n° 112 (March 1993): “it is a question of the most effective means significantly to reduce the level of unemployment within a reasonable delay”. Still in 2001, the OFCE wrote in very favorable terms in connection with the 35 hours.
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