Jean Barthélemy

Senior Research Economist, Financial Economics Research Division

Jean Barthélemy is the Deputy Head of the Financial Economics Research Division at the Banque de France. His areas of expertise include fiscal and monetary policies, macroeconomic theory, and digital finance.

Current Position

Deputy Head of the Financial Economics Research Division

Previous Position

  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Sciences Po
  • Economist in the Monetary Policy Research Division, Banque de France

Diplomas

  • Ph.D. in Economics, Paris School of Economics, 2011
  • M.A. in Economics, Paris School of Economics, 2006
  • M.Sc in Statistics and Economics, ENSAE, 2006

Research Interest

Fiscal and monetary policies, macroeconomic theory, and digital finance.

Contact

Academic publications

Articles
  • «Fiscal Dominance: Implications for Bond Markets and Central Banking», with E. Mengus and G. Plantin, Annual Review of Financial Economics (2025).
  • «A Unified Approach to Determinacy Conditions with Regime Switching», with M. Marx and S. Cho. Review of Economic Dynamics (2024).
  • «The Central Bank, the Treasury, or the Market: Which One Determines the Price Level?», with E. Mengus and G. Plantin, Journal of Economic Theory (2024).
  • «Time-consistent implementation in macroeconomic games», with E. Mengus, Theoretical Economics (2024).
  • « Quel support monétaire pour accompagner la tokenisation financière ? », with N. Barbaroux, Revue Française d'Économie (2024).
  • «Monetary Policy Switching and Indeterminacy», with M. Marx, Quantitative Economics (2019).
  • «The signaling effect of raising inflation», with E. Mengus, Journal of Economic Theory (2018).
  • «Trade Balance and Inflation Fluctuations in the Euro Area», with G. Cléaud, Macroeconomic Dynamics (2018).
  • «Solving Rational Expectations Models», with M. Marx, in Shu-Heng Chen and Mak Kaboudan OUP Handbook on Computational Economics and Finance (2018).
  • «Illiquid Collateral and Bank Lending during the European Sovereign Debt Crisis», with V. Bignon and B. Nguyen, Economics and Statistics, Economics and Statistics (2017).
  • «Solving Endogenous Regime Switching Models», with M. Marx, Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control 77 (2017) 
  • «A Two-Pillar DSGE Monetary Policy Model for the Euro Area», with L. Clerc and M. Marx, Economic Modeling, May 2011
  • «China as an integrated area? Magnitude and determinants of Business Cycles within China», with S. Poncet, Journal of Economic Integration (2008).
Others
  • «A State Theory of the Price Levels», with E. Mengus and G. Plantin (2025).
  • «DeFi-ying the Fed? Monetary Policy Transmission to Stablecoin Rates», with A. Barbon and B. Nguyen. SSRN (2023).

Publications

Forecasting bank lending rates
Banque de France Bulletin
Banks
13th of February 2026
A State Theory of Price Levels
Working paper
Economy
8th of December 2025
17th of December 2024
Market perception of monetary policy responsivenes
Eco Notepad
Monetary policy
8th of July 2024
Interest rates in decentralised finance
Eco Notepad
Rates and prices
9th of April 2024
Stablecoins and the Financing of the Real Economy
Working paper
Innovation
14th of February 2023
27th of December 2022
18th of January 2022
10th of December 2021
12th of May 2020
Public Liquidity Demand and Central Bank Independence
Working paper
Banque de France
12th of January 2020
13th of December 2019
29th of November 2019
15th of November 2019
21st of November 2018