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2021 - Present : Economist at Banco de España (Macroprudential Policy and Financial Stability)
“Macroeconomic-policy Interactions and the Effects of Fiscal Stimulus.”
with Romain Houssa (University of Namur)
“Cross-Border Risks in Eurozone Sovereign Bond Markets.”
single author
Broto, C and O Hubert (2025), “Desertification in Spain: Is there any impact on credit to firms?”, Banco de España Working Paper Series 2513 (full article).
Alves, P and O Hubert (2025), "Does energy efficiency affect house prices in Spain?", Banco de España Occasional Paper Series 2508 (full article in Spanish).
Gonne, N and O Hubert (2020), “Spatial distancing: air traffic, COVID-19 propagation, and the benefits of air travel restrictions”, COVID Economics 24. (full article or VoxEU column).
2020 - 2021
Macroeconomist at Banque de France (Public Finances Division)
2019
Internship at European Central Bank (Fiscal Policies Division)
2011 - 2018
Researcher at University of Namur, Belgium
2017
Research Internship at National Bank of Belgium
2011 - 2018
Teaching Assistant at University of Namur, Belgium (200 hours/year)
Introduction to Economics (BA)
Statistics (BA)
Econometrics (BA/MA)
International Macroeconomics (MA)
Tutoring of students' Master Theses (MA) (10 students/year)
2011 – 2018
PhD in Economics, University of Namur, Belgium
2009 – 2011
Master of Economics (Research Track), Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium (Grade: Great Honors)
2009 – 2011
Master of Economics (International Economics), Universytet Warszawski (UW), Poland (Grade: Dobry Plus - Great Honors)
2008 – 2009
1st Semester, Erasmus Exchange Program, University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland
2006 – 2009
Bachelor of Economics, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (FUNDP), Belgium. (Grade: Honors)
Title: Heterogeneous Effects of Fiscal Policy on Sovereign Yields
Supervisors: Romain Houssa (University of Namur), Hans Dewachter (KULeuven, National Bank of Belgium)
Jury: Jean-Marie Baland (President - University of Namur), Romain Houssa (Secretary - University of Namur), Hans Dewachter (KULeuven, National Bank of Belgium), Lasse Bork (Aalborg University), Stephan Fahr (European Central Bank), Paul Reding (University of Namur)
4th NGFS Expert Research Network Seminar, May 27, Eltville, Germany
South Africa Modelling Network 2021, June 28-30, Virtual (hosted by Economic Research Southern Africa)
SMYE 2020-2021, June 18, Virtual (hosted by University of Bologna)
Fiscal Policies Division Internal Seminar, July 16, European Central Bank, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany
25th International Conference Computing in Economics and Finance, June 28-30, Ottawa, Canada
7th Ghent Macro Workshop, June 6-7, Ghent, Belgium
DG-Economics Internal Seminar, April 30, European Central Bank, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany
6th International PhD Colloquium, November 23, Liège, Belgium
33rd Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, August 27-31, Cologne, Germany
24th International Conference Computing in Economics and Finance, June 18-21, Milan, Italy
7th PhD Student Conference in International Macroeconomics and Financial Econometrics, March 16, Université Paris-Nanterre, France
5th Belgian Macroeconomic Workshop, September 12, Namur, Belgium
32nd Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, August 21-25, Lisbon, Portugal
7th Doctoral Meeting of Montpellier, University of Montpellier, October 25-27, Montpellier, France
4th Belgian Macroeconomic Workshop, September 23, Brussels, Belgium
2nd International Conference on Applied Theory, Macro and Empirical Finance, University of Macedonia, May 5-6, Thessaloniki, Greece
PhD Workshop in Finance, UCLouvain-University of Namur, May 7, Namur, Belgium
Belgian Financial Research Forum, May 27, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
WHU-CEUS Workshop on “The Future of Economic Policies in Europe”, May 16-17, Koblenz, Germany
Review of Development Economics
Intermediate SQL, Banco de España, 2024
III Course on Financial Stability, Banco de España and CEMLA, 2021
Macroprudential Policy Implementation, Florence School of Banking and Finance, 2021
Markov-Switching and Time-Varying Parameter Models in Finance, Allan Timmermann, National Bank of Belgium, 2014
VAR models: Time-Varying Parameters and Identification with Sign Restriction, Christiane Baumeister, Université Catholique de Louvain, 2014
Modeling Regime Switches in VARs and DSGE models, Junior Maih, National Bank of Belgium and CEF Milan, 2013 and 2018
MIDAS regression techniques, Eric Ghysels, National Bank of Belgium, 2013
Topics in Empirical Finance, Geert Bekaert, Université Catholique de Louvain, 2012
DSGE Modeling, Céline Poilly, Université Catholique de Louvain, 2011
"#WhatEconomistsReallyDo: how to successfully communicate research outside of academia?", EEA 2018
"Web scraping for economists", instructor: Eric Persson (ECB), EEA 2018
"Economics in the Classroom: how to teach economics more effectively?", EEA 2017
PhD course on Academic Writing in English, instructor: Kristin Blanpain (KULeuven), UNamur 2017
University of Mannheim-EABCN Conference "Asset Prices and the Macro Economy" - Mannheim, Germany, 2016
ECB Public Finance Conference "Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy and their Interaction in a Monetary Union." - Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, 2014
7th International Workshop on Methods in International Finance Network, 2013
Workshop on "The Macroeconomics of Sovereign Debt." FUNDP, 2013
International Conference on Endogenous Financial Risk. National Bank of Belgium, 2012
International Workshop on "Unconventional Central Bank Policy during the Global Financial Crisis." FUNDP, 2012
President of the Alumni association of the Faculty of Economics at UNamur between 2011 and 2013
Elected member of temporary staff in the academic year 2014-2015
Organization of Scientific Events
Doctoral Workshop in Economics 2015 (Spring, Fall and Winter sessions), UNamur-UCLouvain-USaint-Louis, Belgium
5th Belgian Macro Workshop, UNamur, 2017
PhD course on Academic Writing in English by Kristin Blanpain, KULeuven
French: native
English: full professional proficiency (British Council IELTS English test: Band 8)
Spanish: full professional proficiency
German: limited working proficiency
Dutch: limited working proficiency
Polish: notions
Softwares and Programming Languages : MATLAB (expert), Stata (expert), Eviews (advanced)
Econometrics, Data Handling, Web Scraping, User input emulation
Typesetting: Office Suite, LyX, LaTeX
Databases : Datastream, Macrobond, BIS, ECB Statistical Data Warehouse, SQL (intermediate)
Web : Design and Creation of 4 websites with rudimentary knowledge of HTML and CSS (Research Center - CeReFiM ; Doctoral Workshop in Economics 2015 ; Holiday Home "Les Terriers Saint-Hubert")
Banco de España
Carmen Broto, carmen.broto@bde.es
Banque de France
Katja Schmidt, katja.schmidt@banque-france.fr
European Central Bank
Beatrice Pierluigi, beatrice.pierluigi@ecb.int
University of Namur
Prof. Romain Houssa, romain.houssa@unamur.be and Prof. Jean-Yves Gnabo, jean-yves.gnabo@unamur.be
National Bank of Belgium
Prof. Hans Dewachter, hans.dewachter@nbb.be
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