IMF Staff Country Reports

France: Selected Issues

January 8, 2013

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Summary

The paper identifies France’s structural reforms that would yield the largest competitiveness gains based on macro-empirical evidence, and reviews signs of potential gains from a deregulation of the services sector. It is expected that completing deregulation in the services sector would benefit the entire French economy, by boosting productivity and exports. Econometric results have estimated the impact of reducing the labor taxation and labor market rigidities and of increasing innovation to the average level of other advanced countries.

Subject: Banking, Economic sectors, Export performance, Exports, Financial institutions, Foreign banks, International trade, Production, Productivity, Services sector

Keywords: Bank, CR, Europe, Export performance, Exports, Fiscal consolidation, Foreign banks, France, Global, IMF staff calculation, IMF WEO, ISCR, Merchandise export, Productivity, Services deregulation, Services sector

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    79

  • Volume:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2013/003

  • Stock No:

    1FRAEA2013001

  • ISBN:

    9781475576290

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685