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Department of Economics
Université du Québec à Montréal
PO 8888, Downtown Station
Montréal (QC) H3C 3P8, Canada
Phone: (514) 987-3000 ext.1780#
Fax: (514) 987-8494

Date of Birth: 04/18/1974
Citizenship: U.S. and Belgian

CURRENT AND PAST POSITION

• Assistant Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal, June 2003-present.
• Research Fellow, Universidad de Malaga, September 2007-June 2009.
• Visiting Professor, HEC, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, March 2007- July 2007.
• Visiting Researcher, HEC, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2008.
• Research affiliate, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, December 2002-May 2008.
• Research affiliate, Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE), Montréal, October 2003-present.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Economics, University of Rochester, June 2004.
• M.A., Economics, University of Rochester, March 2001.
• M.A., Mathematical Economics and Econometrics, MPSE, Université Toulouse 1, Toulouse, France,
  June 1998 (Cum Laude).
• B.A., Economics, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium,
  August 1997 (Suma Cum Laude).
  

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

• Graduate Scholarship, University of Rochester, 2000-2002.
• Wallis Institute of Political Economy Fellowship, 1998-2000.
• Tuition Fellowship, University of Rochester, 1998-2002.

GRADUATE WORK

• Fields of Specialization:
  Primary: Macroeconomics, Labor Economics;
  Secondary: Dynamic Contracting, International Economics.
• Dissertation Title: "Labor Market Performance and Heterogeneity"
• Advisor: Professor Jeremy Greenwood.

RESEARCH

Research Interests:

Macroeconomics, Matching and Search Models, (Dynamic) Contracting, International Economics, Computation and Economics.

Papers:

"Two-Sided Search, Heterogeneity and Labor Market Performance," 2006. (IZA DP 1572).

"OECD Labor Markets: Performance, Institutions, and Policies", 2004.

"Bargaining Frictions and Hours Worked," with Stéphane Auray, 2007 (IZA DP 1722).
Revised as "Bargaining Frictions, Labor Income Taxation and Economic Performance", 2008 (METC WP 1 and CIRPEE WP)

"Coordination Failures, Monopolistic Competition and Debt Overhang," Master's Thesis, MPSE, Université Toulouse 1, 1998.

"Unemployment, Underemployment, and Models of Coordination Failures," Undergraduate Thesis, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1997.

Work in Progress:

"Marriage, Cohabitation, and Divorce," with Stéphane Auray and Arianna Degan

"Business Turnover and Search for Location," with Peter Rupert

"Bargaining Frictions and Taxes: France vs the UK," with Stéphane Auray

"Welfare Analysis of Bargaining Frictions," with Stéphane Auray

"Are Labor Policies Optimal?"

"Heterogeneity and Labor Market Policies"

"Unemployment Insurance and Mobility in Europe," with Stéphane Auray and Javier Ortega

Presentations:

Invited:
University of Malaga , Malaga , Spain , October 2007
University of Southampton , UK , May 2007
University of Lausanne , DEEP advanced seminar, Lausanne , Switzerland , May 2007
University of Granada , Granada , Spain , February 2007
University of Navarra , Pamplona , Spain , October 2006
Numerically Intensive Economic Policy Analysis V Conference, Queen's University at Kingston , Canada , May 2006
Society for Computational Economics , Washington , USA , June 2005
University of Western Ontario , London , Canada , December 2003
University of Quebec at Montreal , Montreal , Canada , February 2003

Submitted:
WEGMANS conference, Rochester , USA , October 2005
WEGMANS conference, Rochester , USA , November 2004
Econometric Society European Meetings, Madrid , Spain , August 2004
Society for Economic Dynamics, Florence , Italy , July 2004
WEGMANS conference, Rochester , USA , November 2003
European Economic Association, Stockholm , Sweden , August 2003
Society for Economic Dynamics, Paris , France , June 2003

TEACHING

Teaching Experience:

Introduction to Macroeconomics (in English), Universidad de Malaga, spring 2008 (with Noemí Navarro)

 

Introduction to Microeconomics (in English), Universidad de Malaga, fall 2007

 

Séminaire de politiques macroéconomiques, HEC Lausanne, spring 2007

 

Economie du travail (masters), UQAM, winter 2005, winter 2006

 

Macroéconomie 3 (advanced undergrad macro), UQAM, winter 2004, fall 2004, fall 2005, winter 2006.

Macroéconomie Avancée (Ph.D. class), UQAM, winter 2004, with A.Kurmann.

Perspective de l'économique (basic undergrad economics), UQAM, winter 2004, (with C.Lemelin and S.Pallage), fall 2004 (with A.Kurmann and S.Pallage), winter 2005, fall 2005, winter 2006 (with A. Kurmann)

Intermediate Macroeconomics, University of Rochester, summer 2001.

Teaching Interests:

Macroeconomics, Macroeconomics and the Labor Market (graduate)

Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, International Economics, IO (undergraduate)

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Organisation:

Member of the organising committee of the 46th annual conference of the Société Canadienne de Sciences Économiques, Montreal, Canada, May 3-4, 2006.

Member of the organising committee of the Canadian Macro Study Group, annual meetings, Montréal, Canada, November 5-6, 2004

Research Assistant:

Professor Thomas F. Cooley, University of Rochester, summer 1999, fall 1999.

Refereeing Experience:

American Economics Review, Annales d'Économie et de Statistique, Canadian Journal of Economics, BE Journal of Macroeconomics, Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Monetary Economics, Labour Economics, Review of Economic Studies, L'Actualité Économique, Revue Économique de Louvain.

Other Work Experience:

Webmaster, Department of Economics, UQAM, June 2003-June 2004, June 2005-June 2006.

Part-Time Economic Advisor, iDashes.net, March 2001-2003. More on this.

Webmaster, Wallis Institute of Political Economy and RCER, 1999-2003. More on this.

Webmaster, Economics Department, 1999-2003.

Programming Skills: C++, MATLAB, GAUSS, R, Stata, HTML, Latex.

Language Skills: English, spoken and written; French, mother tongue; German, basic knowledge, Spanish, intermediate knowledge.