## Matthieu Bellon, Ph.D. in Economics ## Source details **Canonical URL:** [Matthieu Bellon, Ph.D. in Economics](https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/cv/pdfs/matthieu-bellon.pdf) ## Other formats - [Markdown version](/-/media/files/cv/pdfs/matthieu-bellon.pdf.md) - [Structured JSON version](/-/media/files/cv/pdfs/matthieu-bellon.pdf.json) --- ### Contact Information - Affiliation: International Monetary Fund - Email: mbellon@imf.org - Address: 700 19th street NW, Washington, DC 20431 - Website: matthieubellon.com - Mobile: +1-(917)-331-5847 - Date: March 3, 2019 ### Professional Experience - International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC, United States - Economist, Fiscal Affairs Department, since 2018 - Led fiscal discussions, incl. on the Covid crisis policy response, in the SBA program for Armenia - Covered fiscal, social and energy sector issues in ECF program negotiations for Haiti - Conducted research in collaboration with country authorities and experts, supervised an intern - Organized an IDB-IMF-SUNAT workshop on Electronic Invoicing and Data Analytics in Lima - Economist, African Department, 2016 - 2018 - Covered real, external issues in ECF/EFF program negotiations and monitoring for Cˆote d’Ivoire - Met with groups of private investors to present the IMF’s perspective on the Ivoirien economy - Columbia University, New York, NY, United States - Instructor, Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant, 2010 - 2015 - Designed content and tests to meet students’ needs, presented lectures in International Trade - Teaching assistant in Macroeconomics (PhD and undergraduate level) and International Trade - Head of a team of 5 teaching assistants for a class of 120 students - Soci ́et ́e G ́en ́er ́ale Corporate Investment Banking, London, UK - Intern, Capital Raising and Financing Department, Jan-Aug. 2009 - Identified clients’ needs and options to improve the costs and maturity profile of their liabilities - Determined the price of liability swaps and bonds by utilizing trading data and quantitative models to provide estimates of the overall costs of these operations - Banque de France, Paris, France - Intern, Balance of Payments Department, Jun-Dec. 2008 - In-depth comparative study of France export performance relative to other OECD countries - Leveraged study’s results to propose improvements in the forecasts of international trade flows ### Research, Papers, and Refereeing - Refereeing: - Review of Economics and Statistics - Journal of International Economics - African Development Review - Selected Papers: - Fiscal Policies to Address Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific: Opportunities and Challenges, IMF Departmental Paper with E.Dabla-Norris, J.Daniel, M.Nozaki, C.Alonso, V.Balasundharam, C.Chen, D.Corvino, and J.Kilpatrick, 2021 - The Role of Market Structure and Timing in Determining VAT Pass-Through, IMF Working Paper with A.Copestake, 2021 - Household consumption volatility and poverty risk: case studies from South Africa and Tanzania, IMF Working Paper with C.Pizzinelli and R.Perrelli white, 2020 - Digitalization to improve tax compliance: evidence from VAT e-invoicing in Peru, IMF Working Paper and IMF Podcast with J.Chang, E.Dabla-Norris, S.Khalid, F.Lim, E.Rojas and P.Villena, 2019 - Regional growth spillovers in sub-Saharan Africa, IMF Working Paper No. 19/160, F&D article and IMF blog post with F.Arizala, M.Mlachila and M.MacDonald, AFR department award, 2018 - Trade liberalization and inequality: a dynamic model with worker and firm heterogeneity, working paper, WTO Essay Award, 2016 - The characteristics of worker flows by firm growth: empirical evidence from a matched firm-worker dataset from France, working paper, Wueller Pre-Dissertation Award, 2016 - Reallocation, industry structure and the effects of banking deregulation, working paper with J.Vogel and J.Nosal, 2016 ### Conference Presentations and Awards - 8th International Workshop on Domestic Revenue Mobilization: "Taxation and digitalization", German Development Institute (DIE), Bonn, 2019 - Gates foundation grant supporting research on VAT electronic invoicing reform in Peru, 2018 - IMF African department award in recognition for exceptional contributions, 2018 - USC Dorsnife INET’s Conference on Inequality, Globalization, and Macroeconomics, University of South California, Los Angeles, 2017 - 5th IMF- World Bank - WTO Trade Research Workshop, Washington, 2016 - European Trade Study Group, 18th Annual Conference, Helsinki, 2016 - World Trade Organization Essay Award for Young Economists, 2016 - Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Economics, Columbia University, 2015 - 2016 - CREST (the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics) visiting student, Paris, 2014 - 2016 - Faculty Fellowship, Department of Economics, Columbia University, 2010 - 2015 - Chazen Institute of International Business Doctoral Research Grant, 2014 - Program for Economic Research Grant, Columbia University, 2014 - Wueller Pre-Dissertation Award for Best Proposal by a 4th-Year Student, runner-up, Department of Economics, Columbia University, 2014 - Wueller Teaching Award, runner-up, Department of Economics, Columbia University, 2013 ### Education - Columbia University, New York, NY, United States - PhD in Economics, 2010 - 2016 - Fields of specialization: International Trade and Macroeconomics - Dissertation: "Essays in Economics on Liberalization and Reallocation" - Paris School of Economics, Paris, France - Master of Science in Economics, 2009 – 2010 - Master thesis in International Trade: "Unemployment, labor protection and market integration" - Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique, Paris, France - Diplˆome d’ing ́enieur (Master of Science), 2006 – 2010 - Fields: Econometrics, Finance, Macroeconomics - Master thesis: "A Macro-Analysis of Economic Development in China: the Dynamics of Regional Inequality" with M. Lebrand, and G. Z ́eganadin ### Programming, Languages, and Activities - Programming: Stata, R, Matlab, Latex - Languages: French (native), English (fluent), Spanish (conversational) and German (basic) - Associations: - Association of Graduate Economics Students, Columbia, Board member, 2011-2013 - Association of Students, ENSAE, President, managed a €100,000 budget, 2007 - Volunteering: - Mentoring to help immigrant students achieve their college dream at Carlos Rosario International Charter Public School, since-2019 - Instructor of college prep courses for underprivileged students, 2006-2007 - Taught English to elementary students in Thailand, 2007 --- _Source: https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/cv/pdfs/matthieu-bellon.pdf_