Rachidi KOTCHONI is economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) since September 2024. Previously, he was Principal Economist at the African Development Bank (Jan 2020-Aug 2024), and Senior Economist at the World Bank (May 2018-Dec 2019), after a rich academic experience at Université Paris Nanterre; African School of Economics; Université de Cergy-Pontoise; University of Ottawa; Université de Montréal; University of Alberta; and Université Laval. Rachidi KOTCHONI holds an "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" from the Université Paris Nanterre, and a Ph.D. in economics and M.Sc. in Mathematical and computational finance from the Université de Montréal. His research fields are time series and financial econometrics, competition policy and trade. He has several publications in peer-reviewed academic journals such as Econometric Theory, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Financial Econometrics, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, and Review of Industrial Organization.
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1176717
https://ideas.repec.org/f/pko432.html
https://economix.fr/membres/rachidi-kotchoni/
https://cirano.qc.ca/fr/communaute/bottin/view/2681
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rachidi-Kotchoni/research