## Flavien Moreau ## Source details **Canonical URL:** [Flavien Moreau](https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/cv/pdfs/flavien-moreau.pdf) ## Other formats - [Markdown version](/-/media/files/cv/pdfs/flavien-moreau.pdf.md) - [Structured JSON version](/-/media/files/cv/pdfs/flavien-moreau.pdf.json) --- ### Employment - Economist — International Monetary Fund, 2022- - Research Department, Development Macroeconomics Div., 2024- - Western Hemisphere Department, 2022-24 - Regional Economic Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean - Article IV Consultations for the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union - Weekly Departmental Seminar organizer, Climate Working Group - Economist Program — International Monetary Fund, 2019-22 - Finance Department, General Resources & SDR Policy, 2021-22 - Division’s analytical work on Special Drawing Rights (SDR), credit risk, governance, surcharges - Country program reviews (incl. Pakistan, Jordan, Suriname, El Salvador) - 2022 Article IV Mission, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - African Department, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2019-21 - Program negotiations, 2019 Rapid Credit Facility & Staff Monitored Program, 2020 RCF - Fiscal Affairs Dept. Technical Assistance mission on macro-fiscal forecasting - African Dept. Research Advisory Group ### Education - Ph.D. Economics — University of California, Los Angeles, 2019 - M.A. Economics — University of California, Los Angeles, 2015 - M.Sc. Econometrics and Mathematical Economics — London School of Economics and Political Science, London, 2012 - M.Sc. Engineering — Ecole Nationale des Ponts & Chaussées, Paris, 2012 ### Publications (Selected) - “Diversification in Sight? A Macroeconomic Assessment of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030”, with Zamid Alighishiev, International Economics, Volume 180, December 2024, 100538 - “Judge Bias in Labor Courts and Firm Performance”, with Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo, and Bérengère Patault, Journal of European Economic Association, Volume 22, Issue 3, June 2024, Pages 1319–1366 - “A Unified Model of Cohort Mortality for Economic Analysis”, with Adriana Lleras-Muney, Demography (2022) 59(6):2109-2134 - “Do French Companies Under-Report their Workforce at 49 Employees to Get Around the Law?”, with Philippe Askenazy, Thomas Breda, and Vladimir Pecheu, Institut des Politiques Publiques, IPP Policy Brief n o 82, March 2022 - “Quel est l’Impact du Pouvoir d’Appreciation des Juges sur les Indemnités de Licenciement?”, with Pierre Cahuc, Stephane Carcillo, Berengere Patault, Droit Social, n o 3, March 2022 ### Working Papers - “How Costly are Cartels? Evidence from French Cartels”, with Ludovic Panon, IMF Working Paper, No. 2022/104 (Revise & Resubmit AEJ: Macro) - “Harnessing Satellite Data to Improve Social Assistance Targeting in the Eastern Caribbean”, with Ryu Matsuura, Sophia Chen, and Joana Pereira, IMF Working Paper, No. 2024/084, submitted - “The Dynamics of Trade Integration and Fragmentation in Latin America”, with Rafael Machado Parente, IMF Working paper, forthcoming - “Inferring Capital-Labor Substitution from Firm Size Distortions”, UCLA mimeo 2019 - “Greening the Fund’s Quotas: A Practical Proposal for Paris-Alignment”, with Mengxue Wang and Shan He ### Work in Progress - “The Cost of Economic Cartels in Latin America”, with Ludovic Panon - “Growth and the Energy Transition in Small Island Developing States”, with DeLisle Worrell - “The End of the Demographic Dividend in Latin America”, with Camila Casas - “Informality, Labor Markets and the Phillips Curve in Latin America”, with Camila Casas and Ana Paula Nothen Ruhe - “Active and Passive Antitrust Policies”, with Semih Üslü - “Natural Resource Contracts in Sub-Saharan Africa: an Empirical Analysis”, with Antoine Arnoud and Abraham Lartey ### IMF Policy Papers (Selected) - Regional Economic Outlook, Western Hemisphere, Background paper on “Closing the Gap: Labor Force Participation in Latin America”, October 2024 - Article IV Consultation on Common Policies of Member Countries of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union, April 2024 - Regional Economic Outlook, Western Hemisphere, Background paper on “Trade Integration and Implications of Geo-economic Fragmentation in Latin America and the Caribbean”, October 2023 - “Assessing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s National Investment Strategy”, Saudi Arabia Article IV, Special Issue Paper, Volume 2022: Issue 275, August 2022 - Review of the Method of Valuation of the SDR, IMF Policy Paper No. 2022/020, May 2022 - Sixteenth General Review of Quotas - Further Considerations, Committee of the Whole Paper, February 2022 - Interim Review of the Adequacy of the Fund’s Precautionary Balances, IMF Policy Paper, December 2021 - Sixteenth General Review of Quotas - Initial Considerations on Quota Formula and Realigning Shares, Committee of the Whole Paper, September 2021 - Guidance Note for Staff on the Treatment and Use of SDR Allocations, IMF Policy Paper, August 2021 - Proposal For a General Allocation of Special Drawing Rights, IMF Policy Paper, July 2021 - Fiscal Affairs Department Technical Assistance Report on Macro-Fiscal Forecasting (Managing Natural Resource Wealth Thematic Fund), January 2021 - Request for Disbursement under the Rapid Credit Facility, IMF African Department, April 2020 - Staff Monitored Program and Request for Disbursement under the Rapid Credit Facility, IMF African Department, December 2019 ### Presentations and Conferences (Selected) - 2024: Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (St. Kitts & Nevis); West Indies Economic Conference (Kingston, Jamaica); Conference of European Statistics Stakeholders (Paris); Banxico; Banca de la Republica (Colombia); Annual LACEA Meetings (Montevideo) - 2023: International Industrial Organization Conference (Washington, DC); 12th Annual CompNet Conference (Brussels); Bank of Jamaica; University of the West Indies; Bank of Paraguay; Annual LACEA Meetings (Bogota, Colombia) - 2019-2022: NBER Economics of Health Program Meetings; Johns Hopkins Carey Business School; European Economic Association Annual Meetings (Manchester); Society for Economics Dynamics (St. Louis); Southern Economic Association Meetings; College de France; Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond; World Bank Development Research Group ### Research Experience - Visiting Graduate Student Researcher, Sciences-Po Paris, Summer and Winter 2017 - Research Assistant for Adriana Lleras-Muney, 2017 - Research Assistant, NBER, 2016 - Research Assistant for Andrew Atkeson, Andrea Eisfeldt, and Pierre-Oliver Weill, ‘Measuring U.S. Firms Financial Soundness’ - Full-time Research Assistant for Joachim Voth, University Pompeu Fabra, 2012-13 - Intern Analyst, Economic Bureau of the French Embassy, London, UK, Jan.-June 2011 ### Teaching Experience - Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, UCLA - Topics in Macroeconomics (Ph.D. 1st year, Andy Atkeson), Spring 2015 - Macroeconomic Theory (Francois Geerolf), Winter 2015, 2016, Spring 2017 - Income Inequality, (Jon Vogel), Spring 2018 - Corporate Finance, Fall 2017 - Econometrics, Fall 2013, 2014 - Special Reader, Department of Economics, UCLA - Industrial Organization (John Asker), Spring 2015, Winter 2016 - Mathematical Finance, Winter 2018 - Money and Banking, Fall 2015 ### Awards and Honors - 2021 Climate Change Challenge (final round), IMF - 2020 Anti-Corruption Challenge (winning team), IMF - 2018-2019 Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA - 2017-2018 John and Joan L. Wickham Scholarship, UCLA - 2017-2018 Best Paper in Macroeconomics, Proseminar Award, UCLA - 2013-2016 Graduate Dean Fellowship, UCLA - 2013-2015 Pauley Fellowship, UCLA ### Skills - Programming: Python, R, Matlab, Stata - Languages: French (Native), English (Fluent), Spanish (Intermediate), Mandarin (Novice) --- _Source: https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/cv/pdfs/flavien-moreau.pdf_