## JULIEN ACALIN

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### Contact and Personal Information
- Email: acalin.julien@gmail.com
- Website: julienacalin.com
- Institution: International Monetary Fund, Research Department
- Born: 11/22/1990
- Citizenship: France, Lebanon
- Office address: 700 19th Street NW, Washington D.C.

### Current Employment
- International Monetary Fund, Research Department - Systemic Issues Division - Economist Program, Sept. 2023 –

### Research Interests
- Macroeconomics
- International Finance

### Education
- Ph.D. in Economics, Johns Hopkins University, 2023
- M.Sc. in Financial Economics, HEC Paris, 2016
- M.Sc. in Development Economics - Class Valedictorian, Paris Dauphine University, 2014
- B.Sc. in Economics - joint with Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Paris Dauphine University, 2011

### Professional Experience
- Research Assistant to Prof. Barbera, Survey of Professional Forecasters, 2018 – 2022
- Research Analyst, Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2015 – 2017
- Summer Intern, International Monetary Fund - Research Department, 2015
- Economist, Banque de France - International Directorate, 2013 – 2014

### Working Papers
- [1] “The Global Financial Cycle Meets Global Imbalances” (Job Market Paper)
  - Award: Finalist of the 2023 Young Economist Prize by the Qatar Centre for Global Banking & Finance at King’s Business School
- [2] “Did the U.S. Really Grow Out of its World War II Debt?” (with Laurence Ball), NBER Working Paper, 2023. R&R, AEJ: Macro.
- [3] “Growth-Indexed Bonds and Debt Distribution: Theoretical Benefits and Practical Limits,” Peterson Institute for International Economics Working Paper No. 18-7, 2018.

### Publications and Policy Papers
- Publication: “Global Business and Financial Cycles: A Tale of Two Capital Account Regimes” (with Alessandro Rebucci), Seoul Journal of Economics, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2020 (Invited contribution).
- Policy paper: “What Does Measured FDI Actually Measure?” (with Olivier Blanchard), Peterson Institute for International Economics Policy Briefs No. 16-17, 2016.
- Policy paper: “The Case for Growth-Indexed Bonds in Advanced Economies Today” (with Olivier Blanchard and Paolo Mauro), Peterson Institute for International Economics Policy Briefs No. 16-2, 2016.

### Conference Presentations (selected by year)
- 2024: Royal Economic Society Annual conference (Belfast, UK), DebtCon7 (Paris, France), IMF Research Department seminar
- 2023: NBER International Finance and Macroeconomics Program Meeting, Spring 2023 (Boston, USA); EEA Meetings (Barcelona, Spain); DebtCon6 (Princeton, USA); University of Richmond; Federal Reserve Board (Washington, D.C. USA); Bank for International Settlement (Basel, Switzerland); UQAM (Montreal, Canada); University Laval (Quebec, Canada); Banca d’Italia (Rome, Italy); ESADE (Barcelona, Spain); Banque de France (Paris, France)
- 2022: South-Eastern European Economic Research Conference (Online); Midwest Macro Meetings (Dallas, USA); Warsaw Money-Macro-Finance (Warsaw, Poland); University of Naples Federico II (Naples, Italy); Xiangjiang River Forum (Online); International Atlantic Economic Society (Washington, D.C. USA); Paris Finance Meeting - ESSEC (Invited)
- 2021: Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Macro Seminar
- 2020: World Finance & Banking Symposium (Online); JHU Macro Seminar
- 2017–2018: European Commission (Brussels, Belgium); OECD (Paris, France); Peterson Institute for International Economics; IMF (Washington, D.C. USA)

### Workshops and Schools
- Macro-Finance Society Summer School (Online), Summer 2022
- Princeton Initiative: Macro, Money and Finance (Princeton University, USA), Summer 2019

### Teaching Experience (Johns Hopkins University)
- Teaching Assistant (T.A.) to Prof. Poliakova, Macroeconomic Theory (Fall) 2022
- Instructor, Seminar in Financial Literacy (Winter) 2021 – 2022
- Lead T.A. to Prof. Barbera, Elements of Macroeconomics (Fall) 2018 – 2022
- T.A. to Prof. Jeanne, PhD Macroeconomic Theory (Spring) 2019 – 2022
- T.A. to Prof. Dasgupta, Elements of Macroeconomics (Summer) 2020

### Skills and Languages
- IT: Python, MATLAB, Stata, Bloomberg
- Languages: English (fluent), French (native), Spanish (fluent), Arabic (Conversational)

### Scholarships and Awards
- Johns Hopkins University: Provost’s Office Dissertation Completion Award, 2023
- Johns Hopkins University: Full Departmental Fellowship, 2017 – 2022

### References
- Olivier Jeanne, Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University, +1 202-640-9347, ojeanne@jhu.edu
- Laurence Ball, Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University, +1 410-516-7605, lball@jhu.edu
- Alessandro Rebucci, Associate Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, +1 202-251-2106, arebucci@jhu.edu
- Olivier Blanchard, C. Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics, +1 202-328-9000, oblanchard@piie.com

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