Current situation

I am a PhD candidate at the Paris School of Economics. I am also an economist at the Banque de France. My major fields of interest are macroeconomics, economic growth, applied econometrics and computational economics. You can download a pdf version of my résumé here.

Education

2007 - pres.	PhD Candidate, Paris School of Economics. Supervisor: Michel Juillard.
2004	Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies (DEA, graduate degree) in Economic Analysis and Modelling (with honors), Ecole Centrale Paris & University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne.
2001	Ecole Centrale Paris des Arts et Manufactures, Major in Economics (with honors).
2001 - 2002	French Master's Degree (DPECF & DECF) in management control, accountancy and financial management.

Work experience

2004 - pres.	Economist, Macroeconomic Studies and Forecasting Dept., Banque de France.
2003	Financial Analyst, Financial Directorate, Gaz de France.
2001 - 2003	Financial Analyst, M&A Due Diligence, Ernst & Young, France.

Teaching experience

2010	Teaching Assistant, Business Cycles, Master EPP, Ecole Polytechnique, France.
2009 - 2010	Lecturer, Modern Macro Modelling in Economics 2, Ecole Centrale Paris, France.
2009	Teaching Assistant, Numerical Methods in Macroeconomics (PhD level), Sciences-Po Paris, France.
2008 - 2010	Teaching Assistant, Economics 1 & 2, Ecole Centrale Paris.
2005 - 2006	Teaching Assistant, Economic Growth Theory, University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, France.
2001	Teaching Assistant, Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique Féminine, Sceaux, France.

Academic Publications

• "Potential Growth in Several Industrial Economies: a Comparison" with A. Saint-Guilhem, Empirical Economics, forthcoming, 2009. Also available in working paper version from PSE or ECB (longer version).
• "Issues on Potential Growth Measurement and Comparison: How Structural Is the Production Function Approach?" with A. Saint-Guilhem, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, July/August 2009, 91(4), pp. 221-40. Technical appendix and dynare codes available Here.
• "Variantes en Univers Incertain" with S. Adjemian, A.Devulder, and N. Maggiar, Economie et Prévision, 2008, no 183-184, pp. 223-238, 2008. Also available in working paper version from Banque de France.
• "Is the Inflation-Output Nexus Asymmetric in the Euro Area? Some evidence for France, Germany and Italy" with M. Baghli and H. Fraisse, Economics Letters, Vol 94(1), pp. 1-6, 2007. Also available in working paper version from Banque de France.

Other Publications

• "Innovation, productivité et croissance" with J. Montornes, Bulletin de la Banque de France, no 166, 2007.
• "The determinants of innovation levels in SMEs" with P. Askenazy and D. Irac, excerpts from the september 2007 issue, Bulletin de la Banque de France, 2007.
• "Croissance potentielle : d'où viennent les écarts entre quelques grandes économies développées" with A. Saint-Guilhem, Bulletin de la Banque de France, no 155, 2006.

Contributions to Book & Report

• Complement to the CAE's report on "Les leviers de la croissance française", P. Aghion, G. Cette, E. Cohen, and J. Pisani-Ferry, CAE report no 72, pp. 113-126, December 2007.
• "Estimating Potential Output with a Production Function for France, Germany and Italy" with M. Baghli and J.-P. Villetelle, in de Bandt, O., Herrmann, H., Parigi, G. (Eds.), Convergence or Divergence in Europe? Growth and Business Cycles in France, Germany and Italy. Springer Verlag, pp. 159-181, 2006. Also available in working paper version from Banque de France.

Working Papers

• "Competition, R&D, and the Cost of Innovation" with P. Askenazy and D. Irac, PSE Working Paper no 32, 2008. Also available from Banque de France, Working Paper no 197, 2008.

Conferences & Seminars

• Invited speaker at the 33rd Annual Economic Policy Conference on Projecting Potential Growth: Issues and Measurement, October 16 & 17, 2008, Federal Reserve Bank of Saint-Louis, Mo, USA.
• AFSE, 56th annual congress, September 20 & 21, 2007, Paris, France.
• ESEM, August 31, 2007, Budapest, Hungary.
• CEPR-Banque de France Conference on Innovation, July 5 & 6, 2007, Enghien-les-Bains, France.
• Banque de France research seminar on Productivity and Growth, July 3, 2006.
• Conference on Perspectives on Potential Output and Productivity Growth initiated by Bank of Canada and Banque de France, April 24 & 25, 2006, Enghien-les-Bains, France.
• AFSE, 54th annual congress, September 15 & 16, 2005, Paris.
• Conference on Growth and cyclical asymmetries between France, Germany and Italy initiated by Banca d'Italia, Banque de France and Bundesbank, June 23 & 24, 2005, Paris.

Refereeing activity

Economica, European Central Bank, Journal of Applied Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.

Unpublished Manuscript

• Properties of an R&D-based CGE Model of Endogenous Growth in an Open Economy, Master Dissertation, October 2004.