Education

• PhD (Economics), Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, September 1994. Dissertation title: Real Business Cycles in Open Economies. Committee: Finn E. KYDLAND, Bennett T. MCCALLUM, José-Victor RIOS-RULL, Anthony SMITH, Christopher TELMER, David BACKUS.
• M.S. (Economics), Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, May 1992.
• Diplôme postgrade en économie politique, Ecole des HEC, Université de Lausanne, July 1990. Master thesis title: Prix et rendements immobiliers: construction d'un indice (Real Estate Prices and Returns: Construction of an Index). Committee: Jean-Christian LAMBELET, Jean-Pierre DANTHINE, Pierre MILLIET.
• Licence en sciences économiques, mention "économie politique", Ecole des HEC, Université de Lausanne, July 1988.

Interests

• International Business Cycles, Real Business Cycles.
• Stochastic Dynamic General Equilibrium Models with Heterogeneous Agents.
• Political Economy of Social Policies.
• Housing and Real Estate Markets.

Positions

Research

• Refereed articles
  • Douglas GOLLIN and Christian ZIMMERMANN. Global Climate Change, the Economy, and the Resurgence of Tropical Disease. Mathematical Population Studies, forthcoming 2012.
  • Stéphane PALLAGE, Lyle SCRUGGS and Christian ZIMMERMANN. Unemployment Insurance Generosity: A Trans-Atlantic Comparison. Annales d'Économie et de Statistique, 95(6), pages 15-24, July/December 2009.
  • Stéphane PALLAGE and Christian ZIMMERMANN. Buying Out Child Labor. Journal of Macroeconomics, 29(1), pages 75-90, March 2007.
  • Stéphane PALLAGE and Christian ZIMMERMANN. On Voters' Attitudes Towards Unemployment Insurance Subsidies across Regions: A Canadian Simulation. Journal of Population Economics, 19(2), pages 391-410, June 2006.
  • Stéphane PALLAGE and Christian ZIMMERMANN. Heterogeneous Labor Markets and Generosity Towards the Unemployed: An International Perspective. Journal of Comparative Economics, 33(1), pages 88-106, March 2005.
  • Mingwei YUAN and Christian ZIMMERMANN. Credit Crunch in a Model of Financial Intermediation and Occupational Choice. Journal of Macroeconomics, 26(4), pages 637-659, December 2004.
  • Steve AMBLER, Emanuela CARDIA and Christian ZIMMERMANN. International Business Cycles: What are the Facts? Journal of Monetary Economics, 51(2), pages 257-276, March 2004.
  • Lise GODBOUT, Paul STORER and Christian ZIMMERMANN. The Canadian Treasury Bill Auction and the Term Structure of Interest Rates. Journal of Banking and Finance, 26, pages 1165-1179, June 2002.
  • Steve AMBLER, Emanuela CARDIA and Christian ZIMMERMANN. International Transmission of the Business Cycle in a Multi-Sectoral Model. European Economic Review, 46(2), pages 273-300, February 2002.
  • Stéphane PALLAGE and Christian ZIMMERMANN. Voting on Unemployment Insurance. International Economic Review, 42(4), pages 903-923, November 2001.
  • Christian ZIMMERMANN, Forecasting with Real Business Cycle Models. Indian Economic Review, 36(1), pages 189-203, January 2001.
  • Christian ZIMMERMANN. International Business Cycles and Exchange Rates. Review of International Economics, 7(4), pages 682-698, November 1999.
  • Christian ZIMMERMANN. International Business Cycles among Heterogeneous Countries. European Economic Review, 41(2), pages 319-355, February 1997.
  • Christian ZIMMERMANN. Marché suisse du logement et information (Swiss Housing and Real Estate Markets and Information). Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik / Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 128(3), pages 399-407, September 1992.
  • Christian ZIMMERMANN. Prix et rendements immobiliers: construction d'indices pour les années 1980 (Real Estate Prices and Returns: Construction of Indices for the 1980's). Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik / Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 127(4), pages 735-753, December 1991.
• Books
  • Jean-Christian LAMBELET and Christian ZIMMERMANN. Droit au logement ou économie de marché? Une analyse de l'immobilier en Suisse (Giving a Right to Lodging versus Allowing for a Market Economy? An Analysis of the Housing and Real Estate Markets in Switzerland). Payot, Lausanne, 222 pages, April 1991.
• Other articles
  • Christian ZIMMERMANN, La dissémination de la recherche en sciences économiques: les << cahiers de recherche >>'. Hermès 57, 2010, 43-46.
  • Christian ZIMMERMANN, The Economics of Open Access Publishing. Economic Analysis and Policy, 2009, 49-52
  • Thomas KRICHEL and Christian ZIMMERMANN. The Economics of Open Bibliographic data Provision. Economics Analysis and Policy, 2009, 143-152.
  • Marco NOVARESE and Christian ZIMMERMANN. Heterodox Economics and Dissemination of Research through the Internet: the Experience of RePEc and NEP. On the Horizon, 2008, 580-583.
  • Christian ZIMMERMANN, Employment. In: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Ed. William A. Darity, Jr.. Vol. 2. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008. 580-583.
  • Mingwei YUAN and Christian ZIMMERMANN, Credit Crunch, Bank Lending and Monetary Policy: A Model of Financial Intermediation with Heterogeneous Projects. In: Money, Monetary Policy and Transmission Mechanisms, Walter ENGERT and Jack SELODY (eds.), Bank of Canada, Ottawa, pages 323-338, October 2000.
  • Mingwei YUAN and Christian ZIMMERMANN, Étranglement du crédit, prêts bancaires et politique monétaire: un modèle d'intermédiation financière avec projets hétérogènes. In: La monnaie, la politique monétaire et les mécanismes de transmission, Walter ENGERT and Jack SELODY (eds.), Bank of Canada, Ottawa, pages 369-387, December 2000. (French translation of above)
  • Stéphane PALLAGE and Christian ZIMMERMANN, Assurance-chômage et sociétés. In: Finances publiques. Finances privées, Bernard Jurion and Pierre Pestieau (eds.), Éditions de l'Université de Liège, pages 123-141, February 2000.
  • Christian ZIMMERMANN. Business Cycles and Exchange Rate Regimes. In: Exchange Rates and Monetary Policy, Paul FENTON and John MURRAY (eds.), Bank of Canada, Ottawa, pages 179-210, May 1997.
  • Christian ZIMMERMANN. Les cycles économiques et les régimes de change. In: Les taux de change et la politique monétaire, Paul FENTON and John MURRAY (eds.), Bank of Canada, Ottawa, pages 195-229, May 1997. (French translation of above)
  • Jean-Pierre DANTHINE, Jean-Christian LAMBELET, Délia NILLES and Christian ZIMMERMANN. Prévisions pour l'économie suisse (Forecasts for the Swiss Economy). Analyses et Prévisions 1992-1995, pages 1-74, April 1993.
  • Jean-Bernard RACINE, Vincent CRETTOL, Lucien GARDIOL, Dusan ISAKOV, Etienne PIGUET and Christian ZIMMERMANN. Bien-être et qualité de vie en Suisse (Well-being and Quality of Life in Switzerland). Revue économique et sociale, 48(2), pages 93-104, June 1990.
  • Christian ZIMMERMANN. Les taux hypothécaires sont-ils responsables du niveau actuel des loyers? (Are the Mortgage Rates Responsible for the Current Level of Rents?). Revue économique et sociale, 47(4), pages 237-246, December 1989.
  • Jean-Christian LAMBELET and Christian ZIMMERMANN. Loyers et taux hypothécaires: analyses et résultats empiriques (Rents and Mortgage Rates: Analysis and Empirical Results). Analyses et Prévisions 1989-1991, pages 67-91, October 1989.
• Book reviews
  • Information Rules. A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy. By Carl SHAPIRO and Hal R. VARIAN. Journal of Economic Literature, XXXVIII(2), pages 425-426, June 2000.
• Submitted papers in revision
  • Christian ZIMMERMANN. Technology Innovations and the Volatility of Output: An International Perspective. In revision at Review of Economic Dynamics.
  • Mingwei YUAN and Christian ZIMMERMANN. Financial Intermediation with Heterogeneous Projects: An Application to the Japanese Credit Crunch. In revision at Journal of International Money and Finance.
  • Jeong-Yoo KIM, Insik MIN and Christian ZIMMERMANN. The Economics of Citation. In revision at Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics.
• Unpublished working papers
  • Academic Rankings with RePEc, UConn Working paper 2007-36.
  • A Survey on Interest Rate Forecasting. Working paper 87, CREFÉ, June 1999. With Yvon FAUVEL and Alain PAQUET.
  • Short-Term Forecasting of National and Provincial Employment in Canada, Working paper R-99-6E, Human Resources Development Canada, Applied Research Branch, February 1999. With Yvon FAUVEL and Alain PAQUET.
  • Moral Hazard and Optimal Unemployment Insurance in an Economy with Heterogeneous Skills. Working paper 54, CREFÉ, October 1997. With Stéphane PALLAGE.
  • A Real Business Cycle Bibliography. Working paper 43, CREFÉ, July 1996.
  • International Trade over the Business Cycle: Stylized Facts and Remaining Puzzles. Working paper 37, CREFÉ, March 1995.
  • Détermination du loyer en Suisse: un marché faussé? (Determination of Rents in Switzerland: A Distorted Market?). Cahiers de Recherches Economiques, no. 9012, Département d'Econométrie et d'Economie Politique, Université de Lausanne, August 1990.
  • Historique des politiques du logement et de leurs effets en Suisse (History of Housing Policies and their Impacts in Switzerland). Cahiers de Recherches Economiques, no. 9011, Département d'Econométrie et d'Economie Politique, Université de Lausanne, August 1990.
• Ongoing Work (*= draft available on request)
  • Delayed Income Taxation and the Business Cycle. *
  • Regional Labor Fluctuations (with Steve DAVIS and Prakash LOUNGANI)
  • Realistic Cash-in-Advance
  • Financial Intermediation with Heterogeneous Agents: Transitional Dynamics and Policy Responses (with Martin BERKA) *
  • Malaria: Disease Impacts and Long-Run Income Differences (with Douglas GOLLIN) *
  • Unemployment Insurance: Isn't Marriage Enough? (with Stéphane PALLAGE and Michel ROBE * (incomplete)
  • Unemployment Accounts vs. Unemployment Insurance: A Quantitative Exploration (with Stéphane PALLAGE) *
  • Measuring Unemployment Insurance Generosity (with Stéphane PALLAGE and Lyle SCRUGGS) *
• Editorial Duties
  • Associate Editor, Review of Economic Dynamics, 1999-
  • Editor, NEP-DGE (New Economics Papers, Dynamic General Equilibrium). 1998-
  • Editorial Board, Economic Analysis and Policy. 2008-
  • Guest Editor, Economic Analysis and Policy. 2009.
• Professional service
  • Secretary, Society for Economic Dynamics , 2007-
  • Member, Scientific Board, International Data Service Center of IZA, 2007-
• Popular Press
  • Accessing economic research on Bangladesh. The Daily Star, Dhaka, 9 March 2009 (with Marco Novarese and Quentin Wodon).
  • More Taxes, Please. Why the price of gas is too low. National Post Business, Debunk Column, November 2000.
• Other publications
  • Instructor's Manual and Test Bank for Stephen D. Williamson, Macroeconomics, 3rd edition, Pearson Addison-Wesley, 2007. 4th edition, Pearson Addison-Wesley, 2010.

Conferences and Seminars

(External presentations only, C=conference, W=workshop, S=seminar)

• 2011: University of Ottawa ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (W), Universität Trier (S), University of Ghent Society for Economic Dynamics (C), Universität zu Köln (W). Future: University of Oslo Econometric Society European Summer Meeting (C), Central Bank of Norway (S), National Bank of Poland (W), Southern Illinois University (S), University of Indiana (S).
• 2010: American Economic Association (C), British Library (W), Universität zu Köln (S), Technische Universität Dortmund (S), Universität Giessen (S), Technische Universität Darmstadt (S), University of Waterloo (S), University of Saskatchewan (S), Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (S), Rimini Center for Economic Analysis (C), European University Institute (SS), Universidade do Minho (W), Universität Mannheim (C), Université de Montréal Society for Economic Dynamics (C), NBER Summer Institute (W), LACEA (C, invited), Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (S), Université Catholique de Louvain (S).
• 2009: Indiana University Midwest Macro Meeting (C), Humboldt-Universität Berlin (S), IZA Bonn (S), CES-Ifo München (SSS), Istanbul Society for Economic Dynamics (C), University of California Santa Barbara (W), Queens University Canadian Macroeconomic Study Group (W)
• 2008: DIW-Berlin (SS), EDHEC Paris (W), IZA Bonn (W), MIT Society for Economic Dynamics (C), OECD (S), Université de Cergy-Pontoise (S), Université du Maine (S), University of Pennsylvania Midwest Macro Meeting (C), University of California Santa Barbara (SS), Swiss National Bank (S), Universität St. Gallen (S), Universität Konstanz (S), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) (S), Université de Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) (S), Banque de France (S), Université de Toulouse (S), York University (Canada) (S).
• 2007: Charles University Prague Society for Economic Dynamics (C), Cornell University (W), DIW Berlin Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (C), Harvard University (W), ITAM Econometric Society (C), Wesleyan University (W)
• 2006: Concordia University Canadian Economic Association (C), European Central Bank (S), IZA Bonn (S), University of British Columbia Society for Economic Dynamics (C), Washington University Midwest Macro Meeting (C).
• 2005: Brown Univerisity New England Universities Development Consortium (C), George Washington University Society for Computational Economics (C)
• 2004: Iowa State University Midwest Macro Meeting (C), Vassar College (S).
• 2003: Bank of England (S), Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Midwest Macro Meeting (C), New York University European Society for Population Economics (C), Université de Montréal (S), Université de Paris I Sorbonne Society for Economic Dynamics (C)
• 2002: Bank of Canada (S), Boston College (S), Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (S), NBER Summer Institute (W), New York University Society for Economic Dynamics (C), Southern Methodist University (S), SUNY-Albany (S), Université de Montréal (W), University of Alabama (S), University of Connecticut (S)
• 2001: American Economic Association (C), American University (S), Bank of Canada (S), Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (S), Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Midwest Macro Meeting (C), Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (W), Florida International University South-East Economics Theory & International Economics Conference (C), Stockholm School of Economics Society for Economic Dynamics (C), Université de Montréal Canadian Economic Association (C), University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (S), University of Victoria (S)
• 2000: Duke University (S), Florida State University (S), Society for Economic Dynamics Costa Rica (C), SUNY-Binghampton (S)
• 1999: Bank of Canada (W), Carleton University (S), Society for Economic Dynamics Alghero (C), Theories and Methods of Macroeconomics (T2M) Montreal (C), Université de Montréal (W), Universidad de Vigo (W), University of Pittsburgh Midwest Macro Meeting (C), University of Toronto Canadian Economics Association (C)
• 1998: Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (S), Société Canadienne de Sciences Économiques Québec (C), University of Iowa (W), University of Pennsylvania Society for Economic Dynamics (C)
• 1997: Concordia University (S), HEC Montréal (S), Memorial University of New Foundland Canadian Economic Association (C), Oxford University Society for Economic Dynamics (C), Société Canadienne de Sciences Économiques Montréal (C), Universität Bern (S), Université de Paris I Sorbonne (W), University of Southampton (S)
• 1996: Athens Institute of Economic Policy Studies Hydra (W), Bank of Canada (W), Brock University Canadian Economic Association (C), Eastern Economic Association Boston (C), Société Canadienne de Sciences Économiques St-Sauveur (C), University of Iowa Econometric Society (C), ITAM Society for Economic Dynamics and Control (C), Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics Boston (W), Université de Montréal (S), University of Miami (S)
• 1995: Société Canadienne de Sciences Économiques Lac-Delage (C), Université de Lausanne (S), University of British Columbia Canadian Macro Study Group (W), UQAM Canadian Economic Association (C)
• 1994: Österreichische National Bank (S), Universität Wien (S), UQAM (S)
• 1992: Université de Lausanne Swiss Society of Statistics and Economics (C)
• 1991: United Nations Project LINK (W)

Plenary and special talks

• CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI6), Geneva, 19 June 2009.
• IDSC Red Cube Seminar for data technologists and data analysts, Bonn, 3 June 2009.
• Association of College & Research Libraries, Toronto, June 2003.

Teaching

• Advanced Monetary Theory and Policy II, PhD class, University of Connecticut, Fall 2010.
• Economic Growth, University of Connecticut, Fall 2009, Fall 2010.
• Dynamic General Equilibrium Theory with Heterogeneous Agents, Graduate class, Paris School of Economics, November 2008.
• Théorie de l'équilibre général dynamique avec agents hétérogènes, Doctoral class, Université du Maine, January 2008.
• Advanced Macroeconomics I, MA class, University of Connecticut, Fall 2006, Fall 2007.
• Advanced Macroeconomics II, PhD class, University of Connecticut, Fall 2005.
• Advanced Macroeconomics III, PhD class, University of Connecticut, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011.
• Advanced Monetary Theory and Policy II, PhD class, University of Connecticut, Fall 2003, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010.
• Intermediate Macroeconomics, University of Connecticut, Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2004 (2 sections), Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2009, Fall 2010.
• Macroéconomie III (Final undergraduate Macroeconomics), Université du Québec à Montréal, Winter 1996, Fall 1996, Winter 1997, Winter 1998, Fall 1998, Winter 2000 and Fall 2001.
• Modélisation et Programmation (Modeling and Programming), undergraduate, Université du Québec à Montréal, Fall 1997.
• Finance Internationale (International Finance, with Steve AMBLER or Michel NORMANDIN), Masters class, Université du Québec à Montréal, Winter 1995, Winter 1996, Winter 1997, Fall 1997, Fall 1998, Fall 1999 and Fall 2001.
• Macroéconomie Avancée II (Advanced Macroeconomics II, with Steve AMBLER or Alain PAQUET), PhD class, Université du Québec à Montréal, Winter 1995, Winter 1996, Winter 1997, Winter 1998, Winter 1999, Winter 2000 and Winter 2002.
• Méthodes d'Analyse Dynamique (Methods of Dynamic Analysis), PhD class, Université du Québec à Montréal, Fall 1994, Fall 1995, Fall 1996, Fall 1997, Fall 1998 and Fall 1999.
• Intermediate Macroeconomics (with Finn E. KYDLAND), Carnegie Mellon University, Fall 1993.
• Presentations at doctoral courses in Macroeconomics, Carnegie Mellon University and Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, 1993.
• Modèles macroéconomiques (Macroeconomic Modeling Workshop, with Jean-Christian LAMBELET), Université de Lausanne, Academic year 1988-1989.
• Instructor, Swiss Army, July-November 1984 and July-November 1988.

Awards, Major Grants and Fellowships

• Most Appreciated Faculty, University of Connecticut Department of Economics, 2010-2011.
• Most Appreciated Faculty, University of Connecticut Department of Economics, 2008-2009.
• Grillo Faculty Teaching Award, University of Connecticut Department of Economics, 2007-2008.
• Most Appreciated Faculty, University of Connecticut Department of Economics, 2003-2004.
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, regular grant (young researchers), "Informal Market Dynamics and Development" (with Stéphane PALLAGE and Sylvain DESSY). C$67'750 for 2001-2004.
• FCAR (Quebec research grant programme), Programme de soutien aux équipes de nouveaux chercheurs, Le marché du travail canadien: impacts macroéconomiques de sa diversité et de ses politiques économiques (with Stéphane PALLAGE). C$90'000 + C$15'000 (equipment) for 2001-2004.
• FCAR (Quebec research grant programme), Programme de soutien aux nouveaux chercheurs, Analyse du marché du travail canadien au moyen de modèles d'équilibre général dynamique avec agents hétérogènes . C$45'000 for 2000-2003.
• PAFACC (University research grant programme), Subvention spéciale, Le marché du travail canadien: impacts macroéconomiques de sa diversité et de ses politiques économiques (with Stéphane PALLAGE). C$15'000 for 1999-2000.
• FCAR (Quebec research grant programme), Programme de soutien aux nouvelles équipes de recherche, Fusions et acquisitions, activité économique: le cas des États-Unis et du Canada (coordinator; other members: Luis RIVERA-BATIZ, Steve AMBLER, Emanuela CARDIA). C$95'000 for 1999-2002. Grant withdrawn due to residency issues.
• FCAR (Quebec research grant programme), Programme de soutien aux équipes de recherche, Les choix économiques personnels, la politique économique, et le cycle (coordinator: Steve AMBLER; other members: Emanuela CARDIA, Michel NORMANDIN, Alain PAQUET, Louis PHANEUF, Paul STORER, Jang-Ok CHO). C$236'000 for 1995-98.
• PAFACC (University research grant programme), Subvention de démarrage aux nouvelles chercheures, nouveaux chercheurs, Marchés de l'emploi et cycles conjoncturels dans un contexte international. $17'530 and a teaching credit for 1995/96 and for 1996/97.
• Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Swiss National Science Foundation): Fellowship for young researcher, for the study of international business cycles, September 1993-August 1994. SFr. 28'000.
• William Larimer Mellon Foundation: Doctoral Fellowship, September 1990-August 1993. US$ 28'500.
• Caisse d'Epargne et de Crédit: Centenary Prize, attributed by the Rectorate of the Université de Lausanne, July 1990.
• FONDINCO (Foundation of the Vaud Chamber of Commerce and Industry): Grant for the study of housing and real estate markets in Switzerland with a focus on the Canton Vaud. With Jean-Christian LAMBELET and Philippe THALMANN, November 1989-August 1990. SFr. 100'000.
• Swiss-American Exchange Alumni Association: Placement Grant, November 1989.
• Rectorate of the Université de Lausanne: Confederate Solidarity Prize, October 1989.
• Rectorate of the Université de Lausanne: School Prize, October 1986.

Referee Work

L'Actualité Économique - Revue d'Analyse Économique, Addison Wesley, American Economic Review, Annales d'Économie et de Statistique, Applied Economics, Applied Economics Quarterly, The B. E. Journals in Macroeconomics, British Journal of Political Science, Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Public Policy, Econometrica, Econometric Reviews, Economic Bulletin, Economic Journal, Economic Modelling, Empirical Economics, European Economic Review, Fonds FCAR - Quebec Social Science Fund, Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung - Austrian Science Fund, IEEE Annals on the History of Computing Industrial and Labor Relations Review, International Economic Journal, International Economic Review, International Finance, International Monetary Fund Staff Papers, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Income Distribution, Journal of International Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Leibniz Gemeinschaft, Mathematical Population Studies, Pearson, Prentice Hall, Princeton University Press, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Recherches Économiques de Louvain, Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus, Review of Economic Dynamics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of International Organizations, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik - Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Southern Economic Journal, South-Western/Thomson, W. W. Norton Publishers.

Consulting Major contracts only.

• Bank of Canada, Monetary and Financial Analysis Department: Credit Crunch and Financial Intermediation. 1998-1999.
• Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation: Interest Rate Forecasting. With Yvon FAUVEL and Alain PAQUET. 1998-1999.
• Human Resources and Development Canada: Forecasting of Federal and Provincial Employment. With Yvon FAUVEL and Alain PAQUET. 1998-1999.
• Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation: Labour and Construction Cycles. With Yvon FAUVEL and Alain PAQUET. 1998.
• Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée, Université de Genève: External expert for a study on the housing market in Geneva, Switzerland. October 1992-March 1993.
• Société de Gestion de Placements Collectifs, GEP S.A., Lausanne: Wrote an expert appraisal for the case Federal Banking Commission vs. GEP S.A. at the Swiss Supreme Court. September 1992.
• Société de Gestion de Placements Collectifs, GEP S.A., Lausanne: Wrote a report on real estate evaluation practices in trust funds, their impact on the price of shares and on their volume of trade. September 1991-April 1992.

Supervised Students (principal supervisor)

• Christian CALMÈS, Labor force heterogeneity and the business cycle (Ph.D., UQAM, first employment: Bank of Canada, now at Université du Québec en Ouataouais, tenured)
• Rangan GUPTA, Reserve requirements, seigniorage and inflation in Southern Europe (Ph.D., UConn, University of Pretoria, tenured)
• Basab DASGUPTA, Formal and informal credit markets in India (Ph.D., UConn, World Bank)
• Marius JURGILAS, Overnight liquidity markets and currency boards (Ph.D., UConn, Elon University, now Central Bank of Norway)
• Tsvetanka KARAGYOZOVA, Prospect Theory, insurance markets and the euity premium puzzle (Ph.D., UConn, post-doc University of British Columbia, now Lawrence University)
• Kenneth PETERSEN, Money, the Economy, and Monetary Policy (Ph.D., UConn, Laffer Associates)
• Philip SHAW, Corruption, Education and Growth (Ph.D., UConn, Fairfield University)
• Natalya SHELKOVA, Minimum wage and implicit collusion (Ph.D., UConn, Guilford University)
• Marina-Selini KATSAITI, Macroeconomics of obesity (Ph.D., UConn, University of Athens, now University of the UAE)
• Maroula KHRAICHE, Economics of labor migration (Ph.D., UConn, Colorado College)
• Catalina GRANDA CARVAJAL, Informal economies in the business cycle (Ph.D., UConn, Universidade de Antioquia)
• Parag WAKNIS, Money search (Ph.D. candidate, UConn, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
• Shalini MITRA, Firm volatility and the Great Moderation (Ph.D. candidate, UConn, University of Liverpool)
• Lise GODBOUT, The Impact of Weekly Auctions of Canadian Treasury Bills on the Term Structure of Interest Rates (M.Sc., UQAM)
• Paul-André PELLETIER, Anticipation of Debt Crises by Classification of Debtor Countries: an Approach with Linear Programming (M.Sc., UQAM)
• Lucrèce-Junie TCHOUADEP, Is the CFA Zone an Optimal Monetary Zone? (M.Sc., UQAM)
• Youssef ATIF, Impact of the Brady Plan on a Developping Country, the Case of Morocco (M.Sc., UQAM)
• Laurence FOURÈS, International Specialization and the European Monetary Union (M.Sc., UQAM)
• Sami BEN AYED, Harmonisation in the European Monetary Zone and the CFA Zone: a Comparative Study (M.Sc., UQAM)
• Christophe ESKAF, The Banking Crisis in Argentina: Likelihood and Timing of Failure in the Context of Banking System Fragility (M.Sc., UQAM)
• Omar MIMOUNI, Internet in Africa (M.Sc., UQAM)
• Tim FOURNIER, Informational Capital in Firms (M.Sc., UQAM)
• Sanglim Lee, Excess currency returns (Ph.D. candidate, UConn)

Other

• Fluent in French, German and English (Seminar presentations made in all three languages). Understanding of Italian.
• Other languages: Matlab, Fortran, perl, MySQL, HTML, LaTeX, bash.
• Participation in several blogs, including the RePEc Blog http://blog.repec.org/, NEP-DGE blog http://nepdge.wordpress.com/, and Against Monopoly http://www.againstmonopoly.org/.
• Webmaster for various Internet resources for economists:
  • http://edirc.repec.org/ EDIRC - Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World
  • http://dge.repec.org/ QM&RBC - Quantitative Macroeconomics and Real Business Cycles
  • http://ideas.repec.org/ IDEAS - Internet Document in Economics Access Service
  • http://authors.repec.org/ RePEc Author Service
  • http://www.EconomicDynamics.org/ Society for Economic Dynamics and Review of Economic Dynamics
  • http://econacademics.org/ Econ Academics Blog
• Nationality: Swiss and Canadian. US permanent resident.

St. Louis, August 12, 2011