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Biography

Jérôme Creel is a Professor of Economics at ESCP Europe; he joined the school in September 2007. He has been deputy director at the Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Economiques (FNSP) in Paris (2003-2007); he was a Junior then Senior economist in the same institution (1998-2003). He has been a Lecturer at University of Paris-Dauphine since 1993 and at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) since 1999. He holds a Doctorate in macroeconomics from the University of Paris-Dauphine (obtained cum laude in 1997).
His research has focused on economic policies in the EMU, including monetary and fiscal coordination, on the economics of EU enlargement (co-editor, with S. Levasseur, of a Special Issue of the Revue de l'OFCE, 2004) and on institutional economics, notably related to the Constitutional Treaty and delegation issues.
Professor Creel is co-author with E. Farvaque of  a book dedicated to the economic history of the EU and the Euro area (Construction européenne et politique économique, Vuibert, 2004). He has published approximately thirty articles in leading economic journals in the field of macroeconomics and international economics. He contributes regularly to L'état de l'Union européenne and to the Report on the state of the EU, edited by J.-P. Fitoussi and J. Le Cacheux (Fayard et Presses de Sciences Po and Palgrave MacMillan).
He works frequently with the media, providing interviews and comments in France, Italy, Germany, etc.). His monograph, jointly with J.-P. Fitoussi, in 2002 on the European Central Bank (How to Reform the ECB, Centre for European Reform, Pamphlet, October) was the subject of the Economic focus of The Economist in October 2002.

Current research

Jérôme Creel is currently involved in research related to public finance issues. The impact of fiscal policy on growth is one of his main areas of research; studies on French and UK fiscal policies have been submitted to reviews and are currently under review. A study on the impact of public capital and public investment on growth in European countries has been accepted for publication in a British economic review. A sequel of this paper, using regional data and introducing interactions between those regions has begun. A book at Palgrave-MacMillan related to theoretical issues surrounding fiscal policy will be published in 2008.
Jérôme Creel is currently involved in research in the field of monetary economics, notably on the inflation targeting strategy.

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