Thierry Tressel
Last Updated: September 23, 2019
Thierry Tressel is a Senior Economist in the Financial Sector Assessments and Policies Division in the Monetary and Capital Markets Departments at the IMF. He completed a PhD at DELTA (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) in 2001, and holds an Engineering Degree from Ecole Polytechnique (France). His research interests include: Banking; Corporate Finance; Financial Intermediation and Stability; Growth, Trade and Productivity; Political Economy; and Capital Flows.
Email: TTRESSEL@imf.org
Fluent In: French.
Education:
2001: PhD, Economics, at DELTA (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales).
1996-97: MPhil Student at the London School of Economics (European Doctoral Program in Quantitative Economics).
1996: Diplome d’Etudes Approfondies (MSc), Economics, at DELTA.
1995: Engineering Degree, Ecole Polytechnique, France.
Previous Experience:
2016-19: European Department, IMF.
2014-15: Task Manager and Lead Economist, World Bank.
2010-13: European Department, Euro Area and EU Policies, IMF.
2004-10: Research Department, IMF.
2002-04 : Economist Program, IMF.
2001-02: Economics Department, OECD.
2000, 2001: Consultant, World Bank.
2000-01: Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for International Development at Harvard University. Laureate of a Lavoisier Scholarship granted by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Referee Activities:
Journal of Political Economy; Review of Economic Studies; Revue d’Economie Politique; World Bank Economic Review; Southern Economic Journal; Journal of Money, Credit and Banking; International Economic Review; Journal of Comparative Economics; Journal of Development Economics; Journal of Macroeconomics; The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy; Journal of Financial Intermediation; Journal of Banking and Finance; European Economic Review; Journal of Empirical Finance.