Education

Ecole Normale Supérieure (1973-1976).

Agrégation de Mathematiques (1976).

Doctorat de 3° Cycle Sciences Economiques (1979) (Paris X).

Doctorat d'Etat ès Sciences Economiques (1986) (Paris X).

Agregation des Facultés de Droit et de Sciences Economiques (1988).

Prizes and decorations

Distinguished fellow from Association Française de Sciences Economiques (1987).

"Special Merit Award" , American Express (1987).

" Economist of the year", 1997, awarded by Le Nouvel Economiste 

Best economic book, 2000, French Senate.

Best economic essay, French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, 2000.

Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur

Brussels Lectures in Economics (2003)

Current positions

Professor of economics, Université de Paris-I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.

Director, Centre Pour la Recherche Economique et ses Applications (CEPREMAP), Paris.

Research Fellow, Center of Economic Policy Research

Member of the Council of Economic Analysis of the French Prime Minister.

Op-Ed columnist Le Monde

Scientific adviser, OECD Development Centre.

Previous positions

Member of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (chaired by Jeff Sachs) and co-director (with sir George Alleyne) of the Working Group "Health, Economic Growth, and Poverty Reduction".

Co-director of the International Macroeeconomics Program, Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) (1991-1998).

Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (1993-1998).

Member of the Council of the European Economic Association (1993-1999)

Consultant to the World Bank, External Debt division (1984-1997)

Consultant to the TACIS Program on Russia, European Commission (1992-1997)

Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the European Economic Association Congress (Helsinki, 1993)

Professor of Economics, Université de Nancy II (1988-1991)

Consultant to the Banque de France (1986-1988)

Chargé de recherche, CNRS (1985-1988)

Researcher CEPREMAP (on leave from Education Nationale) (1982-1985)

Visiting Scholar, Harvard University (1981-1982 et 1983-1984)

Adviser to the Bolivian government (with Jeffrey Sachs), 1985

Economist, Direction de la Prévision, French Ministry of Finances (1977-1980)

II - PUBLICATIONS

a) Books

"Monnaie, Richesse et Dette des Nations", Editions du CNRS, 1987.

"Private Lending to Sovereign States", MIT Press, 1991.

"Misfortunes of Prosperity", Cambridge: MIT press and Paris: Julliard, 1994. (translation in 4 languages).

" Wealth of the World, Poverty of Nations" MIT Press, and Flammarion, 1997 (translation in 15 languages)

" Our Modern Times", Paris: Flammarion, 2002 MIT Press; translation in 7 languages

"Globalization and its ennemies", 2004, Paris: Grasset.

b) Books in collaboration and reports

"Health, Economic Growth, and Poverty Reduction" (written with George Alleyne), World Health Organization, 2002.

"The Economics of Rising Inequalities" (edited with Thomas Piketty et Gilles Saint-Paul), Oxford Univesity Press, 2002.

" La Nouvelle économie" (written with Michèle Debonneuil) Conseil d’Analyse Economique, Paris : La Documentation Française, 2000.

" Market integration, regionalism and the global economy " (edited with Anthony J. Venables, André Sapir, et Richard Baldwin) , CEPR, Oxford University Press, 1999

" Le partage de la valeur ajoutée "  (written with Patrick Artus), Conseil d’analyse économique, La documentation française, 1998.

"Unemployment: the Choices for Europe" (written with George Alogoskoufis, Charles Bean, …), CEPR, 1995.

c) Recent Working Papers

- " Towards a Theory of Self Restraint ", avec Bernard Caillaud et Bruno Jullien, Cepremap

- " Uneven Technical Progress and Job Destruction " avec Gilles Saint-Paul CEPR DP n°979

- " Welfare Comparison Across French and US Labor Markets " CEPR DP n°2114

-" Growth and External Debt : a New Perspective on the African and Latin American Tragedies " CEPR DP n°1753

-" Why Are Poor Countries Poor ? A Message of Hope Which Involves the Resolution of a Becker/Lucas Paradox " (avec Marcelo Soto), CEPR DP n°3528

-" Growth and Education : Good Data, Good Results " (avec Marcelo Soto) CEPR DP n°3025

-" The Philipps Curves Across the Atlantic : It is the Price Curves Which Differ " CEPR DP n°3100

-" Towards a lender of first resort ", avec Richard Portes, CEPR, DP 4615

d) Articles (by themes)

-" Fear of Globalization : The Human Capital Nexus " Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, 2002.

-" The HIPC Initiative : True and False Promises ", International Finance, vol. 5, n° 3, 2001.

-  " Tests of the Convergence Hypothesis : some further results ", Journal of Economic Growth, vol 1, n°3, 1996.

- "Large external Debt and Slow Domestic Growth", 1995, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol 19, p. 1141-1163.

- "'Secret' Buy-Backs of LDC Debt", 1995, vol 39, 317-334, Journal of International Economics.

- "Growth and External Debt" in Handbook of International Macroeconomics, R. van der Ploeg (ed), London: Basil Blackwell, 1994.

- "Low Investment and Large LDC Debt in the Eighties", American Economic Review, June 1993.

- "A Valuation Formula for LDC Debt", Journal of International Economics, February 1993.

- "The Debt Crisis : A Post Mortem", NBER Macroeconomics Annual, Vol.7, 1992, O.Blanchard and S.Fischer (eds), MIT-Press.

- "Foreign Finance and Economic Growth: an empirical analysis" in Capital Mobility, ed. by Leiderman and Razin, CEPR and Cambridge University Press, 1992.

- "Growth, Productivity and the Access To The World Financial Markets" Journal of the Japanese and International Economics, Decembre 1992.

- "Convergence in the Closed and in the Open Economy" in Finance and Development, ed. by Giovannini, CEPR and Cambidge University Press, 1992.

- "The Solvency of Eastern Europe" European Economy, 1991, special issue n°2.

- "Growth Theory: Lessons for Eastern Europe"., in Economics for the New Europe, ed. by Atkinson and Brunetta, MacMillan, 1991.

- "Debt Relief : Implications of Secondary Market Discounts and Debt Overhang", The World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 4, nø1, 1990.

- "Some Guides to the Management of LDCs Debt", World Bank Economic Review, n°7, 1988.

- "Which LDCs are Solvent", papers and proceedings, European Economic Review, 1988.

- "Inefficience du crédit privé aux Etats souverains", in Volume en l'Honneur d'E.Malivaud, Economica, 1989.

- "Domestic and External Debt Constraints of LDCs : A Theory with a Numerical Application to Brazil and Mexico", in "Global Macroeconomics", Mc Millan, 1987, Bryant, R. and R.Portes editors.

- "The Management of LDCs Debt", in Essays in Honor of R.Marjolin, Oxford University Press et American Express, 1987.

- "Growth and External Debt Under Risk of Debt Repudiation", European Economic Review, (avec J. Sachs), June 1986.

- "How to Evaluate the Solvency of an Indebted Nation", Economic Policy, n°1, 1985.

- "LDC Debt with Default Risk", Kredit und Kapital, special issue on international banking (avec J.Sachs), 1985.

- "La dette fragile des PVDs : quelques causes" Futuribles, n°3, October 1983.

- " Intergenerational transfers and common values in a society " European Economic Review , Mars 2000 (avec Bernard Caillaud).

- "How Should Control Theory Be used to Calculate A Time - Consistent Government Policy", avec Philippe Michel, Review of Economic Studies, March 1988.

- "Laissez-faire or Expropriation in a Growing Economy" (avec Ph. Michel), European Economic Review, 1991, Papers and Proceedings.

- "Inflation Wealth and Interest Rates in an Intertemporal Optimizing Model", Journal of Monetary Economics, August 1985.

- "What Caused the Rise of Conservatism ?", Economic Policy, n°6, 1988.

- "Theorie et pratique du chômage en France" Revue Economique, n°3, (with Philippe Michel), 1987.

-" Why Was the Euro Weak ? " (avec Olivier Loisel) European Economic Review , Mars 2001

- " How Will the Euro Behave ?" in " The Future of the International Monetary System " ed. by Paul Masson, International Monetary Fund, 1997.

- "Price and Trade Effects of Exchange Rate Fluctuations and the Design of Policy Coordination" (with Ch. Wyplosz), Journal of International Money and Finance, 1995, vol 14, 3, p.331-348.

- "Cooperation across the Atlantic and across the Rhine" in The International Monetary System, ed. by Hans Genberg, Springer, 1995.

- "French and Germany in the EMS : the Exchange Rate Constraint" (with Ch.Wyplosz) in External Constraints on Macroeconomic Policy, 1992, Alogosgoufis, Papademos and Portes eds, Cambridge university Press.

- "Monetary Union and its Implications for Fiscal Policy" in Building the New Europe, Baldassari and Mundell, eds, Saint Martin's Press, 1992.

- "European Monetary Union : An Agnostic Evaluation" (avec Charles Wyplosz) in "Economic Policies in an Interdependent World", IMF-CEPR-Brookings Conference, Edit‚ par Currie et al., 1989.

- "Monetary and Fiscal Policy in An Open Economy with or without Coordination", European Economic Review, 1989, Papers and Proceedings.

- "Coordination des politiques économiques et système monétaire international", Cahiers Economiques et Monétaires de la Banque de France, 1988.

- "Une étude intégrée de l'économie française en deux secteurs", Economie et Prévision (avec M.Rocca), n°59, 1983.

- "L'instabilité‚ du système monétaire international", Economie et Statistique (avec P.Ewenczyk), Octobre 1980.

- "Enjeux du système monétaire européen", (avec G.Oudiz and R. de Villepin), Statistiques et Etudes Financières, n°41, 1980.

- "Imaginer une monnaie unique" in l'Ecu et la Vieille Dame, Aglietta éditeur, Collections du CEPII, Economica, 1986.

- " Une comparaison des cycles du travail en France et aux Etats-Unis " Economie et Statistiques, août 2000 (avec Pascaline Dupas).

- " French Unemployment: A Transatlantic Perspective " (avec A. Lefranc et G. Saint-Paul), Economic Policy, n°2, 1998.