Welcome to my website!

I am a senior economist in the Economics and Research Department of the National Bank of Belgium. I hold a PhD from UCLouvain. My research covers topics in macroeconomics, with a particular focus on monetary and fiscal policy interactions, household heterogeneity and the implications of the effective lower bound on nominal interest rates.

As a quantitative macroeconomist, I have expertise in a broad range of computational and empirical techniques, including local (piecewise-)linear algorithms, global (collocation) methods, sequence-space Jacobian methods for heterogeneous-agent models, Bayesian estimation, and empirical econometric tools.

This is my personal website. The views expressed on this website are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Bank of Belgium or the Eurosystem.

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Personnal info:

CV (updated March 2026)

E-mail: chdebeauffort[at]gmail.com

Phone number: 0032 (0) 491 52 96 35

NEWS: 

• Revised version of "Protecting Households from Energy Shocks: Wage Indexation and Fiscal Policy", with G. de Walque, T. Lejeune, J. Mohimont and A. Rannenberg (Sep 2026)

• New working paper: "Trade Frictions and the Small Open-Economy Fiscal Multiplier", with A. Rannenberg (Sep 2026)