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