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• Authors: Celine Rochon

Biography

Celine Rochon is a Senior Economist at the IMF, currently working in the Institute for Capacity Development (Financial Policies Division).

Profile

Education

• 2000: PhD (Economics), CORE, Universite Catholique de Louvain

• 1997: MSc (Economics), CORE, Universite Catholique de Louvain

• 1996: MSc (Mathematics), University of Ottawa

• 1994: BSc (Mathematics), University of Ottawa

Previous Experience

• 2005 - 2013: Associate Professor in Finance (with tenure), Said Business School, University of Oxford

• 2001 - 2005: Associate Professor (with tenure), THEMA, Universite de Cergy-Pontoise, France

IMF Career

• Since October 2019: Institute for Capacity Development, Financial Policies Division. Tonga FPAS TA mission chief; Central Bank Digital Currencies course lead; Financial Sector Surveillance course lead.

• April 2016 - September 2019: Strategy, Policy and Review Department. September 2018-19: SPR Mission at the Banque de France in support of the French G7 Presidency. April 2016 - September 2018: Macro-Financial Unit; Advanced Economies and Multilateral Issues Division; SPR economist on the U.S. team.

• September 2010 - March 2016: IMF Institute for Capacity Development, African Division. Training missions: Financial Markets and New Financial Instruments (Austria, Singapore), Mortgage Markets, Securitization and Structured Finance (Austria, Singapore), Economic Policies for Financial Stability (Austria, Kuwait, Mauritius, Singapore, Tunisia), Financial Market Analysis (Austria, Mauritius, South Africa), Economic Issues in Regional Integration (Mauritius, Tanzania), Financial Programming and Policies (Ghana), Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies (Mauritius, Uganda), Finance for Macroeconomists (IMF HQ), Extracting Information from Financial Markets (IMF HQ - for staff).

• 2014 Article IV Consultation Mission to Qatar. Between 2005-2010: Visiting Scholar at the IMF Institute, and consultant on training missions in China, Austria and Singapore.

IMF Occasional Papers, Pamphlets, and Special Issues Papers

• Fintech and Financial Services: Initial Considerations (with D. He, R. Leckow, V. Haksar, T. Mancini-Griffoli, N. Jenkinson, M. Kashima, T. Khiaonarong, and H. Tourpe), Staff Discussion Note 17/05, International Monetary Fund, June 2017.

IMF Publications

IMF Books and Working Papers

• Solving the Canonical Quarterly Projection Model Using EViews, Technical Notes and Manuals No. 2026/003 , April 6, 2026

• A Quarterly Projection Model for Tonga, Working Paper No. 2025/121 , June 20, 2025

• Policy Multipliers in Japan Under QQE, Working Paper No. 2024/113 , June 7, 2024

• Assessing the Impact of Policy Changes on a Nowcast, Working Paper No. 2023/153 , July 28, 2023

• Managing External Volatility: Policy Frameworks in Non-Reserve Issuing Economies, Working Paper No. 2020/288 , December 18, 2020

• Pre- and Post-GFC Policy Multipliers, Working Paper No. 2020/237 , November 13, 2020

• Riding the Yield Curve: Risk Taking Behavior in a Low Interest Rate Environment, Working Paper No. 2020/053 , March 13, 2020

• The U.S. Personal Saving Rate, Working Paper No. 2018/128 , June 5, 2018

• Back to the Future: The Nature of Regulatory Capital Requirements, Working Paper No. 2017/181 , August 4, 2017

• Fintech and Financial Services: Initial Considerations, Staff Discussion Notes No. 2017/005 , June 19, 2017

• What’s Different about Bank Holding Companies?, Working Paper No. 2017/026 , February 10, 2017

• Reconsidering Bank Capital Regulation: A New Combination of Rules, Regulators, and Market Discipline, Working Paper No. 2014/169 , September 15, 2014

• Optimal Maturity Structure of Sovereign Debt in Situation of Near Default, Working Paper No. 2014/168 , September 12, 2014

• Conformism and Public News, Working Paper No. 2011/033 , February 1, 2011

• A Real Model of Transitional Growth and Competitiveness in China, Working Paper No. 2008/099 , April 1, 2008

• High Growth and Low Consumption in East Asia: How to Improve Welfare While Avoiding Financial Failures, Working Paper No. 2007/278 , December 1, 2007

• Can Good Events Lead to Bad Outcomes? Endogenous Banking Crises and Fiscal Policy Responses, Working Paper No. 2006/263 , November 1, 2006

F&D articles

• Risky mix (with R. Chami, C. Fullenkamp, T. Cosimano), Finance and Development, March 2017.

• The domestic solution: Can China's growth be sustained through good-neighbor policies? (with L. Lipschitz and G. Verdier), Finance and Development, March 2009

Selected Issues

• Enhancing Qatar's Early Warning System, Qatar Selected Issues, IMF Country Report No. 14/108.

Non-IMF Publications

Publications in Journals (Referred)

• Managing External Volatility: Policy Frameworks in Non-Reserve Issuing Economies (with Co-authors: see IMF WP 2020/288), Journal of Financial Crises, forthcoming.

• What’s Different about Bank Holding Companies? (with R. Chami, T. Cosimano, J. Ma), Journal of Risk and Financial Management (April 2022), 15:206.

• Pre- and Post-Global Financial Crisis Policy Multipliers (with S. Ouliaris), Journal of Macroeconomics (August 2021), 70.

• Back to the future: the nature of regulatory capital requirements (with R. Chami, T. Cosimano and E. Kopp), Journal of Banking Regulation (2018), vol 19: 327–336.

• Financial Regulation and the Speed of Financial Risks (with R. Chami, T. Cosimano, C. Fullenkamp), Oeconomia (2017), 7(2) : 161-190.

• Reconsidering bank capital regulation: a new combination of rules, regulators, and market discipline (with C. Fullenkamp), Journal of Economic Policy Research (June 2016), 1-17.

• Conformism and public news (with G. Desgranges), Economic Theory 52 (2013), 1061-1090.

• From search to match: when loan contracts are too long (with C. Chamley), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 43 (2011), 385-411.

• A real model of transitional growth and competitiveness in China (with L. Lipschitz and G. Verdier), Journal of Asian Economics 22 (2011), 267-283.

• High growth and low consumption in East Asia: How to improve welfare while avoiding financial failures (with A. Feltenstein and M. Shamloo), Journal of Development Economics 91 (2010), 25-36.

• Can good events lead to bad outcomes? Endogenous banking crises and fiscal policy responses (with A. Feltenstein), Journal of Asian Economics 20 (2009), 396-409.

• Devaluation without common knowledge, Journal of International Economics 70 (2006), 470-489.

• Debt, liquidity and dynamics (with H. Polemarchakis), Economic Theory 27 (2006), 179-211.

• Generic efficiency and collusion-proofness in exchange economies (with G. Giraud), Social Choice and Welfare 20 (2003), 405-428.

• Consistent collusion-proofness and correlation in exchange economies (with G. Giraud), Journal of Mathematical Economics 38 (2002), 441-463.

• Analyse empirique de la theorie des anticipations de la structure par terme des taux d'interet (with O. Scaillet, G. Lobefalo, N. Marchand, L. Peeters, V. Thoen, J. Van De Voorde, D. Van Rossum), IRES, Service d'Analyse Economique, Universite catholique de Louvain, December 1997.

Publications in Books and Conference Volumes

• Casting Light on Central Bank Digital Currencies (with Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli, Maria Soledad Martinez Peria, Itai Agur, Anil Ari, John Kiff, Adina Popescu). In: "Cryptoassets: Legal, Regulatory and Monetary Perspectives" Chris Brummer (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2019