Bio (see below for CV)

Education

• • BA & Master in Economics : University of Namur, Belgium

  • Phd in economics : University of Brussels, Belgium

Positions

• Research center in statistics and economics (SES), Ministry of Walloon region, Belgium.

• Lecturer, Université of Lille II, France.

• University of Brussels, Belgium. Lecturer in Monetary Theory

• University of Luxembourg, Associate Professor

• University of Luxembourg, Full Professor

• Visiting positions: University of Ottawa, World Bank Washington,CES-IFO, Munich, University of Sydney (Australia), University of Perth (Australia) and University of California Davis (USA) .

Current Teaching

• University of Luxembourg : Research Seminar in Economics (MA), International Economics (BA), Empirical methods in Economics (MA), Economics of migration (Phd) ,

• University of Aix-Marseille (IAE) : Econometrics 1.

• University of Louvain : Econometrics 1 (Suppl. M. Dejemeppe)

Awards

• Winner of the 1991 prize of the Royal Belgian Society of Political Economy for the best Masters thesis entitled "L'impact de la politique budgetaire sur la balance courante: théorie et évidence empirique"

• Top 1 2001 requested paper of the Journal of Development Economics (joint with F. Docquier and H. Rapoport)

• Winner of the 2002 Milken Institute Award for Distinguished Economic Research for the following paper "Brain drain and economic growth in LDC's: who loses and who wins?" (joint with F. Docquier and H. Rapoport)