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Charles Wyplosz


Profile

Charles Wyplosz is Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva where he is Director of the International Centre of Money and Banking Studies.

Previously, he has served as Associate Dean for Reserach and Development at INSEAD and Director of the PhD program in Economics at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales in Paris. He has also been Director of the International Macroeconomics Program of CEPR, the leading European network of economists.

His main research areas include transparency of monetary policy, European monetary integration, fiscal policy discipline, economic transisition and current regional integration in various parts of the world. He is the co-author of a leading textbook on Macroeconomics and of a textbook on European economic integration. He was a founding Managing Editor of the review Economic Policy. He serves on several boards of professional reviews and European research centers. He is a regular columnist in such newspapers as the Financial Times, Le Monde, Libération, Le Temps, Finanz und Wirtschaft, and Handelsblatt.

Currently a member of the Group of Independent Economic Advisors to the President of the European Commission, of the Panel of Experts of the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee and the "Bellagio Group", Charles Wyplosz is an occasional consultant to the European Commission, the IMF, the World Bank, the United Nations, the Asian Development Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank. He has been a member of the "Conseil d'Analyse Economique" which reports to the Prime Minister of France, of the French Finance Minister's "Commission des Comptes de la Nation" and has advised the government of the Russian Federation.

Charles Wyplosz holds degrees in Engineering and Statistics from Paris and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University.


Curriculum Vitae

Degrees
1978 PhD (Economics), Harvard University
1972 DES (Statistics), Paris University
1972 Degree in Engineering, Ecole Centrale de Paris

Teaching Experience
1995- Professor of International Economics,
Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
1988-96 Professor of Economics, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
1978-95 Assistant, Associate and Full Professor of Economics, INSEAD

Policy Experience
2001 United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE): Transition countries accession to the European Monetary Union
2000 United Nations Commission for Trade and Development (UNCTAD): Capital liberalization in developing countries
1999 Departement de l'Economie, Confédération Helvétique, Berne : the International Architecture
1993-7 Economic Adviser to the Government of the Russian Federation

The World Bank
1998 Capital Mobility and Currency Crises
1995-7 The CFA Franc Zone
1994 Study on effects of trade on European labor markets

International Monetary Fund
1997-8 European Monetary Union
1994-5 Exchange Rate policies in transforming countries

Commission of the European Communities, Brussels
2001 Transition countries and the European Monetary Union
1996 Enlargement of the EU to Eastern and Central Europe
1989 The European Monetary Union
1986-8 Member of CEPS Macroeconomic Policy Group
1985 Financial markets liberalization (as a component of the Single European Act)

Additional Experience
1995-8 United Nations Development Program (UNDP): Capital mobility, Tobin tax, Financial Stability
1996 Harvard Institute for International Development: Study on Burkina-Faso
1993 Member of the Committee for the Study of the Independence of the Bank of England
1991-2 Commissariat Général du Plan, Paris : Study Group on European Monetary Union

Appointments, Awards and Honors
2001- Member of Group of Independent Economic Advisers to the President of the European Commission
2000- Member of the Panel of Economic and Monetary Experts Committee for Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament
1999- Member of the Conseil d'Analyse Economique (Council of Economic Advisers to the Prime Minister of France)
1999- Member of the Commission Economique de la France (Ministry of Finance)
1999- Director of the International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies
1984 CEPR Fellow



Selected Publications


Working papers
Fiscal Policy: Institutions vs. Rules ”, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 3238, Décembre 2001.

Articles
"The International Lender of Last Resort: How Large Is Large Enough?" (with Olivier Jeanne), September 1999. CEPR Discussion Paper No. 2842. Forthcoming in: M. P. Dooley and J. A. Frankel (eds.), Managing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets, University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Books
The Economics of European Integration (with R. Baldwin), McGraw-Hill, 2003.

Macroeconomics, A European Text (with M. Burda), Oxford University Press, 1993. Second Edition, 1997. Third Edition, 2001. Translations in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Serbian and Romanian.

“How Do Central Banks Talk?” (with A. Blinder, C. Goodhart, P. Hildebrand and D. Lipton) Geneva Reports on the World Economy 3, CEPR, London, September 2001.

The Impact of EMU on Europe and the Developing Countries, (editor), Oxford University Press, 2001.

Hungary: Towards a Market Economy (co-edited with László Halpern), Cambridge University Press, 1998.


Courses Taught

  • Advanced Macroeconomics
  • Open Economy Macroeconomics
  • Economics of European Integration
  • International Trade and Money
 

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