April 28, 2009 

Welcome! 

You reached my personal web page as a job market candidate for the 2009-10 academic year. This page has been built to signal my availability for economic teaching and research at the time of writing. Please find my contact information at the bottom of this page and in my C.V.


PRESENTATION

I am currently visiting lecturer at the Department of Economics  at the University of Texas at Austin [Austin is the flagship]. You can find my faculty profile here (fields incomplete). I am currently teaching Introduction to Microeconomics as well as International Finance (undergrad, upper division).

I am a member of the University of Texas Inequality Project (UTIP) directed by Professor James K. Galbraith. He is my main adviser here in the US and for this job market. In Fall 2006 I was teaching his graduate macro class at the LBJ School of Public Affairs as a post-doctoral fellow.

I am a French citizen and studied at the University of Nice, France, where I earned my Ph.D. titled "Distribution, Growth and Economic Policies - The case of the United States" in June 2006 (summa cum laude). I had a 4-year teaching fellowship and a 3-year research grant (best awards in France).

I am bilingual English/French.

 

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

I am mostly interested in teaching and conducting research on macroeconomics and international economics. I specialize in growth theories, income distribution (inequality and wages/profits) and international comparisons.  

I would define myself as an "empirical macro theorist" with a very strong interest for economic policies. I like to use econometric and statistical methods embedded in theoretical, historical and policy analysis models.  

I am also very interested by developed economies and, because of my background, by international comparisons (especially US /  European countries comparisons).

 

RESEARCH

  • For theoretical and empirical growth theories, see my Job market paper as well as my What drives profits? piece. 
  • My inequality papers are here (working paper, with a note on the median wage) and here and here (for the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development).
  • My policy paper about the Federal Reserve is here (submitted to the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization) and here is another analysis published in the International Journal of Political Economy.
  • I also have a long-time project about France, its social model and the comparisons with the US. Three pieces: one here, one presentation here and another here (forthcoming at Johns Hopkins University).
  • My immediate research projects are 
    • Growth: an extension of my accelerator paper (that's the job market paper, studying the case the US) in two directions. First to the case of European countries and second towards a more explicit account of trade (that should be two papers)
    • Inequality: "The macroeconomic dimensions of inequality", a paper searching for macroeconomic indicators best capturing the inequality dynamics
    • Unemployment: I am also working on a draft about the NAIRU, addressing the long run vertical Phillips curve. Next, I have a project about using an identity in which unemployment appears and see which variable is the driving one.
    • A paper on the comparison of the French and American economic models
    •  I have some material in my Ph.D. I haven't used yet, and need to be reworked on (a survey of income distribution --wages and profits-- and the related measures). 


TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND AWARDS 

Teaching is very important to me. I have more than seven years of experience teaching at the University level (plus an extra five years tutoring and mentoring). In France, I have been awarded a 4-year teaching fellowship combined to a 3+1 research grant by the French government (best distinction).

  • In 2007-08 and in 2008-09 (Fall and Spring) I am teaching Introductory Microeconomics (Freshmen level) as well as International Finance (intermediate level).
  • In 2006-07 I was teaching Jame's Galbraith's graduate macro at the LBJ School of Public Affairs (at UT Austin too).
  • In France (2000-2004) I was teaching undergraduate Macro, Micro, National Accounting and Statistics. 

The teaching evaluations (available at the time of writing) can be downloaded to the left. You will also find a statement of teaching philosophy there.


MEMBERSHIP, REFEREE

American Economic Association

Canadian Economics Association

European Economic Association

Econometric Society

Human Rights Campaign

Referee for Metroeconomica