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(Last update: 26 April 2009)

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Personal details [back to top]

Affiliations

Economist, Banque de France

Associate researcher, CEPN (University of Paris 13 Nord) and PHARE (University of Paris 1 Sorbonne).

Current position

Since August 2009: Head of division, Financial Economics Research Division, Banque de France.

Previous position

2005 - 2009: Deputy Head of Division, Monetary Policy Research Division

Contact details

Banque de France
Monetary and Financial Studies Directorate
41-1391 RECFIN
75049 PARIS Cedex 01

Email : jean-stephane.mesonnier@banque-france.fr

Link to my professional webpage at the Bank of France.

Research interests

Monetary macroeconomics, monetary policy, asset pricing, history of economic thought.

Education

PhD in Economics, University of Paris 13 Nord, 2007

MA in Political Science, Sciences Po Paris, 1996

Engineer-Economist (MSc), Ecole Centrale de Paris, 1995

Research

Working papers [back to top]

"The housing price boom of the late '90s: did inflation targeting matter?", 2009, with Sébastien Frappa, September.

"Do market-based inflation expectations matter for monetary policy decisions?", 2009, with Jérôme Coffinet, March.

"Bank loan portfolio, bank heterogeneity and the bank lending channel: new macro evidence for France", 2008, October.

"Does uncertainty make a time-varying natural rate irrelevant for the conduct of monetary policy", with Jean-Paul Renne, 2007, Banque de France Working Paper No. 175, October. 

"Capitalisation bancaire et transmission de la politique monétaire : une revue", mimeo, July 2005.

"Règle de Taylor et politique monétaire dans la zone euro", with Jean-Paul Renne, Banque de France Working Paper N° 117,  2004.


Publications [back to top]

Refereed publications

"The Forecasting Power of Real Interest Rate Gaps: an Assessment for the Euro Area" (2008). Applied economics, forthcoming. Latest revised version: August 2007.

"A Time-Varying Natural Rate of Interest for the Euro Area", with Jean-Paul Renne (2007). European Economic Review, 51 (7), October, 1768-1784. Working paper version: Banque de France Working Paper N° 115, 2004. Not for publication technical appendix.

"Interest Rate Gaps and Monetary Policy in the Work of Henry Thornton: beyond a Retrospective Wicksellian Reading" (2006). The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 14(4), December 2007. 

Selected institutional publications [back to top]

"Les mesures non-conventionnelles de politique monétaire face à la crise", with O. Loisel, 2009, Banque de France Questions actuelles, No. 1, Avril. (English version here)

"L'orientation de la politique monétaire à l'aune du taux d'intérêt naturel:  une application à la zone euro", 2005, Bulletin Mensuel de la Banque de France, N° 136, pp. 41-57, April.

"Dynamique des prix des logements : quel rôle des facteurs financiers" with R. Lecat, 2005, Bulletin Mensuel de la Banque de France, N° 133, pp. 29-48, January. (English version here)

"Crédit hypothécaire et soutien à la consommation : quelles leçons tirer du modèle anglo-saxon ?", 2004, Bulletin Mensuel de la Banque de France, N° 132, pp. 43-58, December.

"Le paradoxe de la crédibilité en question", 2004, Bulletin Mensuel de la Banque de France, N° 122, pp. 65-88, February.

"Estimation d’une fonction de demande de monnaie pour la zone euro : une synthèse des résultats" with co-autors, 2003, Bulletin Mensuel de la Banque de France, n° 111, pp. 47-71, March.

"Monnaie électronique et politique monétaire", 2001, Bulletin Mensuel de la Banque de France, n° 91, pp. 51-64, July.

"Les centres financiers extra-territoriaux : caractérisation et enjeux du suivi statistique", 2000, Bulletin Mensuel de la Banque de France, n° 82, pp. 63-77, October.

"Le financement du déficit courant américain : une mise en perspective 1982-1999", 2000, Conseil National du Crédit et du Titre (CNCT), Annual Report 1999, pp. 53-60, Paris.


Teaching [back to top]

Course on Monetary Analysis and Policy. 2009-2010. Fall term. University of Paris IX Dauphine.  Master degree, first year. Link to dedicated page

Invited professor. University of Bordeaux IV Montesquieu. Master degree, first year. Slides (2008) : "Central bank watching: questions de politique monétaire appliquée"

Lecturer: "Monetary policy and financial intermediation". 2008-2009. Spring term. University of Paris 1. Master degree, first year. Link to dedicated page


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