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Economists and researchers

Hervé Le Bihan

  • Postal Address:
    Banque de France, 46-1376 - DCPM-SEMAP, 75049 PARIS Cedex 01 - France
  • E-mail address:
    herve.lebihan@banque-france.fr
  • Phone / FAX numbers:
    +33 (0)1 42 92 49 87 | +33 (0)1 42 92 49 50

Diploma:
M.S in Economics and Statistics (ENSAE Graduate 1993) ; Ph D. in Economics Université Paris XII (2005)

Current Position:
Head of Macro-Analysis and Forecasting Division

Previous Position: Head of Microeconomic Analysis Division (2009-2012); Deputy head of Economic and Financial Research division (2007-2008) ; Economist, Research Unit, Banque de France (1999-2006) ; Economist, OFCE (Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Économiques) (1995-1998)

Research Interest: Sticky prices and wages; inflation ; applied econometric; macroeconometric modelling

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  • "Inattentive professional forecasters", (2010), with P. Andrade, Banque de France, Working Paper n°307
  • "Non-uniform wage-staggering: european evidence and monetary policy implications" (2011), with M. Juillard and S. Millard, mimeo.
  • « Price Stickiness and sectoral Inflation Persistence: Additional Evidence» (2011), with J. Matheron, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, forthcoming.
  • « Sticky Wages Evidence from Quarterly Microeconomic Data» with J. Montornès and T. Heckel, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 4(3), 1-32.
  • « Generalized Taylor and Generalized Calvo price and wage-setting: micro implications» (2012) with H. Dixon, Economic Journal, 122 (May), 532-554.
  • « Time-varying (S, s) band models: empirical properties and interpretation » with E. Gautier, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 35, 394-412.
  • « Restaurant prices and the minimum wage » avec D .Fougère et E.Gautier, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2010, 42(7) ,1199-1234.
  • « Some macroeconomic and monetary policy implications of new microeconomic evidence on wage dynamics »,(2010)avec G.De Walque, J. Jimeno, M. Krause, S. Millard et F. Smets, Journal of the European Economic Association, Papers and Proceedings, 8(2-3) 506-513
  • « 1958-2008 : avatars et enjeux de la courbe de Phillips » (2009), Revue de l’OFCE, n°111, octobre. 
  • « Examining Bias in Estimators of Linear Rational Expectations Models under Mis-specification » (2008), avec E.Jondeau, Journal of Econometrics2008, 143 (2), 375-395. . 
  • « Heterogeneity in price stickiness: a microeconometric investigation » (2007), avec D. Fougère and P.Sevestre, Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, 25(3), 247-264. 
  • « What do thirteen million price records have to say about consumer price rigidity? » (2007), avec L. Baudry, P. Sevestre and S. Tarrieu,Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, vol. 69, n°2, 139-183. 
  • « Price changes in the euro area and the United States. Some facts from Individual Consumer Price Data » (2006), avec E. Dhyne, L. Álvarez, G. Veronese, D. Dias, J. Hoffman, N. Jonker, P. Lünnemann, F. Rumler, J. Vilmunen, Journal of Economic Perspectives,vol 20 (2), 171-192. 
  • « Sticky prices in the euro area: a summary of new micro-evidence. » (2006), avec L. J. Álvarez , E. Dhyne, M. Hoeberichts, C. Kwapil, P. Lünnemann, F. Martins, R. Sabbatini, H. Stahl, P. Vermeulen and J. Vilmunen, Journal of the European Economic Association, vol 4 (2-3), 575-584. 
  • « Using structural balance data to test the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level: some international evidence » (2006), avec J.Creel, Journal of Macroeconomics, vol 28, 338-360. 
  • « Testing for a forward-looking Phillips curve. Additional international evidence from European and US data. » (2005), avec E. Jondeau,Economic Modelling ,vol 22, pp 521-550. 
  • « Tests de rupture : application au PIB tendanciel français » (2004), Economie et Prévision, n°163, pp 133-154. 
  • « Assessing Generalized Method of Moments Estimates of the Federal Reserve reaction function » (2004), avec C. Gallès et E. Jondeau,Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, vol 22, n°2, pp 225-239.
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