Matthieu Bussière

Director of Monetary and Financial Analysis

Current Position

Director of Monetary and Financial Analysis

Previous position

  • Deputy Director then Director of Economics and International and European Relations (2013-2018)
  •  Head of the Macroeconomic Analysis and International Syntheses Division.
  • European Central Bank (2002-2009).
  • IMF (1998-1999) and, for shorter periods, the US Federal Reserve (2004, as part of an exchange with the ECB) and the Bank of England (2000).

Diplomas

  • PhD in Economics, European University Institute, Florence
  • Masters degree in Economics, Cambridge University
  • Graduate of the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris.

Research interest

Macroeconomics and International Trade, International Finance, Financial Crises, Monetary Policy

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Academic Publications

Articles
  • "International Prudential Policy Spillovers: Evidence from the International Banking Research Network" with Claudia M. Buch and Linda Goldberg, 2017, International Journal of Central Banking, vol. 13(2), pages 1-4, March 2017.
  • "International Banking and Cross-Border Effects of Regulation : Lessons from France" with Julia Schmidt and Frédéric Vinas, 2017,  International Journal of Central Banking, vol. 13(2), pages 163-193, March 2017.  
  • “Commonality in Hedge Fund Returns: Driving factors and implications”, with Benjamin Klaus and Marie
  • For a Few Dollars More: Reserves and Growth in Times of Crises, with Gong Cheng, Menzie D. Chinn, and Noëmie Lisack,  Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 52, April 2015, pp. 127-145.
  • Do real exchange rate appreciations matter for growth?, with Claude Lopez and Cédric Tille,  Economic Policy, vol. 30(81), January 2015, pp. 5-45.
  • Exchange Rate Pass-Through in the Global Economy, with Simona Delle Chiaie and Tuomas Peltonen, IMF Economic Review, vol. 62(1), pp. 146-178, April 2014 .
  • Commonality in Hedge Fund Returns: A Determinant of Systemic Risk?, with Benjamin Klaus and Marie Hoerova, forthcoming in: Journal of Banking and Finance.
  • Estimating Trade Elasticities: Demand Composition and the Trade Collapse of 2008-09, 2013, with G. Callegari (IMF), F. Ghironi (Boston College), G. Sestieri (BdF) and N. Yamano (OECD); the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.
  • Chronicle of Large Currency Devaluations: Re-Examining the Effects on Output, with S. Saxena and C. Tovar, Journal of International Money and Finance, Volume 31, Issue 4, pages 680–708, June 2012.
  • Exchange Rate Pass-through to Trade Prices: the Role of Non-Linearities and Asymmetries, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, volume 74, Issue 4, 2012.
  • Balance of Payment Crises in Emerging Markets - How Early were the “Early Warning Signals?, Applied Economics, Vol. 45, N°12, pages 1601-1623, April 2013.
  • Sovereign Debt and Fiscal Policy in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis: Introduction, 2013, Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 0, pages F1-F3, 02.
  • The Financial Crisis: Lessons for International Macroeconomics, 2013, with Jean Imbs, Robert Kollmann & Romain Rancière, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, American Economic Association, vol. 5(3), pages 75-84, July.
  • Protectionist Responses to the Crisis: Global Trends and Implications, 2011, with E. Perez, R. Straub and D. Taglioni, The World Economy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 34, 05, pages 826-852.
  • Productivity shocks, budget deficits and the current account, with Fratzscher, Marcel & Müller, Gernot J., Journal of International Money and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 29(8), pages 1562-1579, December, 2010 
  • A Framework for Assessing Global Imbalances, with Thierry Bracke & Michael Fidora & Roland Straub, The World Economy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 33(9), pages 1140-1174, 09, 2010 
  • Evaluating China’s Integration in World Trade with a Gravity Model Based Benchmark, with Bernd Schnatz, Open Economies Review, Springer, vol. 20(1), pages 85-111, February, 2009 
  • Financial Openness and Growth: Short-run Gain, Long-run Pain?, with Marcel Fratzscher, Review of International Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 16(1), pages 69-95, 02, 2008 
  • Low probability, high impact: Policy making and extreme events, with Fratzscher, Marcel, Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 30(1), pages 111-121, 2008 
  • Towards a new early warning system of financial crises, with Fratzscher, Marcel, Journal of International Money and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 25(6), pages 953-973, October, 2006 
  • Uncertainty and Debt-Maturity in Emerging Markets, with Marcel Fratzscher & Winfried Koeniger, The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Berkeley Electronic Press, vol. 6(1), pages 5, 2006 
  • Current Accounts, Net Foreign Assets and the Implications of Cyclical Factors, with Georgios Chortareas & Rebecca Driver, Eastern Economic Journal, Eastern Economic Association, vol. 29(2), pages 269-286, Spring, 2003 
  • Political Instability and Economic Vulnerability, with Mulder, Christian, International Journal of Finance & Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 5(4), pages 309-30, October, 2000 
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