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.

This is my personal website. Here you can find links to my research and curriculum vitae. You can also visit my Google scholar and LinkedIn. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or comments.

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

Personnal info:

CV (updated March 2026)

E-mail: chdebeauffort[at]gmail.com

Phone number: 0032 (0) 491 52 96 35

NEWS

• New working paper: "Fiscal Policy and Sectoral Spillovers in Open Economy HANK", with A. Rannenberg (Jan 2026)

• New publication in the JEDC (Feb 2026): "Managing the Inflation-Output Trade-off with Public Debt Portfolios" with B. Chafwehé and R. Oikonomou