I am a research economist at the Bank of France. My work centres around financial and monetary economics topics, with a focus on expectations and uncertainty, the pricing of debt securities and financial derivatives, and the evaluation of the effects of monetary policy.
Contact: sarah.mouabbi@banque-france.fr
Publications
“Debt-Stabilizing Properties of GDP-Linked Securities: A Macro-Finance Perspective”, with Jean-Paul Renne and Jean-Guillaume Sahuc, 2024, Journal of Banking and Finance
[Online Appendix] [Replication Package]
“Disastrous Defaults”, with Christian Gourieroux, Alain Monfort and Jean-Paul Renne, 2021, Review of Finance
[Online Appendix] [Replication Package]
“Measuring Inflation Anchoring and Uncertainty: A US and Euro Area Comparison”, with Olesya Grishchenko and Jean-Paul Renne, 2019, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
[Online Appendix] [Website with Output]
“Evaluating the Macroeconomic Effects of the ECB's Unconventional Monetary Policies”, with Jean-Guillaume Sahuc, 2019, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
“National Natural Rates of Interest and the Single Monetary Policy in the Euro Area”, with Sebastien Fries, Jean-Stephane Mesonnier and Jean-Paul Renne, 2018, Journal of Applied Econometrics
“UK Term Structure Decompositions at the Zero Lower Bound”, with Andrea Carriero and Elisabetta Vangelista, 2018, Journal of Applied Econometrics
“Subjective Interest Rate Uncertainty and the Macroeconomy: A Cross-Country Analysis”, with Klodiana Istrefi, 2018, Journal of International Money and Finance
Working Papers
“Inflation and Growth Risk: Balancing the Scales with Surveys'', with Jean-Paul Renne and Adrien Tschopp
“Beyond Oil: The Origins of Commodity Price Fluctuations”, with Alvin Lumbanraja, Evgenia Passari and Adrien Rousset Planat
“The Natural Rate of Interest in the Euro Area: Evidence from Inflation-Indexed Bonds”, with Jens Christensen
“Interest Rate Uncertainty and Firm Decisions”, with Anne Duquerroy and Klodiana Istrefi
“German Inflation-Linked Bonds: Overpriced, yet Undervalued”, with Jens Christensen and Caroline Paulson
Work in Progress
“Reading Inflation Tails”, with Sophie Guilloux-Nefussi, Magali Marx and Jean-Paul Renne
“Not All Days Are Created Equal: The Hidden Forces that Move Financial Markets”, with Valere Fourel
“International Yield Curves”, with Drew Creal, Yan Liu and Cynthia Wu
“Pre- and Post-Pandemic Inflation Expectations in France: A Bond Market Perspective”, with Jens Christensen
Other Publications
“An AI adoption gap among French firms?”, Eco Notepad, May 2026, with Sebastian Stumpner
“US inflation and growth risk through expert eyes”, Eco Notepad, May 2026, with Jean-Paul Renne and Adrien Tschopp
“Beyond oil: The macroeconomic impact of commodity supply disturbances”, VoxEU, 2 April 2026, with Alvin Lumbanraja, Evgenia Passari and Adrien Rousset Planat
“The German Inflation-Linked Bond Paradox: Issuance Stops, Safety Premium and Liquidty Remain Intact”, SUERF Policy Brief, No 1346, with Jens Christensen and Caroline Paulson
“A Rising Star: The Natural Interest Rate in the Euro Area”, FRBSF Economic Letter, May 2025, with Jens Christensen
“How does uncertainty about interest rates affect firms?”, Eco Notepad, November 2024, with Anne Duquerroy and Klodiana Istrefi
“A European Star: The Natural Rate of Interest in the Euro Area”, SUERF Policy Brief, No 980, with Jens Christensen
“GDP-linked bonds: the bewitching song of the sirens”, Eco Notepad, September 2022, with Jean-Paul Renne and Jean-Guillaume Sahuc
“Financial Integration and Structure in the Euro Area", ECB report, April 2022
“What if large firms were to go bust?”, Eco Notepad, March 2020
“Measuring the Anchoring of Inflation Expectations ”, Eco Notepad, August 2018
“Interest rate uncertainty harms the economy”, Eco Notepad, September 2017, with Klodiana Istrefi
“Subjective interest rate uncertainty and the macroeconomy: a cross-country analysis”, Rue de la Banque 48, 2017, with Klodiana Istrefi