France ÉcoScan — studies
The major economic studies
Each study starts from a question that figures can settle, rebuilds the calculation from its sources, and says what it does not prove. The preview is free to read: method, sources and main results can be read without an account.
- Public financesEdition 2026.3
France's public debt
Why debt keeps rising, and what higher interest rates change
Why French public debt keeps rising, and what the return of higher financing rates changes: a thirty-year decomposition, rate pass-through, conditional trajectories and stated limits.
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The purchasing power of France's minimum wage (SMIC)
What the SMIC has really gained against prices since 1996
What the gross hourly SMIC (France's statutory minimum wage) has really gained against prices, measured since 1996, and what the labour market did over the same period: a real-terms index, gains and losses year by year, robustness to the choice of base year, and a cross-check against the reference INSEE publishes for 1990–2025.
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Can you still become a homeowner in France?
What has really changed purchasing capacity in the existing-home market
Prices, rates, incomes, down payment and resale: what has really changed home-buying capacity in the existing-home market, and what the figures let you test today — the financeable capital year by year, three exit thresholds, two market environments compared, and the second purchase.
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The price of fire
What wildfires really cost, beyond the burned area
Prevent, fight, rebuild: what wildfires really cost France. The only public cost estimate, reproduced from its parameters; the aerial-capacity funnel; what a lost season takes with it beyond the burned area; the timeline of fleet renewal; and the threshold at which prevention spending breaks even.
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What French households really have left
Why purchasing power, the money that remains and the end of the month tell different stories
Average purchasing power is rising, and yet the end of the month feels tighter. What each figure really measures, what housing changes at equal income, who bore the price shock most, and what the shocks ahead could change.
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