· International economics and finance
· The Chinese economy
· Public finance and taxation
· Environmental economics
· Applied econometrics
· Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models
· (2025) Marchand, S., Cubizol, D., Ah-Pine, E. N., & Guo, H. Mass media as an environmental watchdog? Evidence from the war on air pollution in China. Environment and Development Economics, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355770X25100284
· (2025) The impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on international trade: A review, limits, and prospects. Revue d’économie du développement, 33(1), 19-60. https://shs.hal.science/halshs-05610479
· (2023) Marchand, S., Cubizol, D., Nasho Ah-Pine, E., Guo, H. “Policy change, mass media and air quality in China: new paths to face air pollution?”, CERDI Working Papers, 2023/6, CERDI. https://uca.hal.science/hal-03448375v2
· (2020) Rebalancing in China: a taxation approach. China Economic Review, 60, 101270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2019.01.009
· (2019) Le commerce franco-chinois: leçons du passé et perspectives d’avenir, Monde chinois, (3), 26-43, with Macaire, C., & Renard, M. F. https://doi.org/10.3917/mochi.059.0026
· (2018) Transition and capital misallocation: the Chinese case. Journal of International Money and Finance, 81, 88-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2017.08.002
· (2017) Unbalanced credit distribution in emerging economies and FDI, Gate working paper 1532, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2701887
· Project TEFISCON funded by The French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; German Research Foundation) - FRAL SHS 2023-2026.
Tax expenditures and the fiscal contract in developing countries (randomized controlled trials- household and firm level surveys in Colombia, Morocco, Uganda, Zimbabwe), with J-F. Brun (project manager) and E. Caldeira, in collaboration with IDOS (German Institute for Development and Sustainability), with C. von Haldenwang (project manager), A. Von Schiller, and C. Mchowa.
https://cerdi.uca.fr/english-version/research-projets/tefiscon#/admin
· Media, government policy, and industrial firms’ air emissions in China, with Marchand, S., Guo, H., and Fages L. (regression discontinuity design analysis).
https://cerdi.uca.fr/english-version/research-projets/air-pollution-and-mass-media-in-china#/
· Fiscal decentralization and economic performance (panel data analysis)
· Tariff policy and trade dynamics: evidence from China (time series analysis)
· Effectiveness of carbon markets and carbon taxes (panel data analysis)
· Capital flows and geopolitical risk, with P. Gandré (time series and panel data analysis)
· Chinese household indebtedness and the hukou system, with C. Brunet. (household survey and probit models)
· France Bleu (Ici Auvergne): Radio interview on the impact of the Middle East conflict on energy prices, March 2026
· France 3 (Ici Auvergne): TV news interview on the impact of the Middle East conflict on energy prices, March 2026
· La Tribune, interview (article « Quand le chaos provoqué par les États-Unis fait le jeu de la Chine »), January 2026
· The Conversation, article. La dette des ménages chinois s’envole. July 2025
· La Tribune, interview (article « Pourquoi les stocks chinois de matières premières suscitent l'inquiétude »), October 2024
· Le Monde, op-ed on the transformations of the Chinese Economy, May 2021
· Franceinfo, interview (article « Covid-19 : pendant la pandémie, le "made in China" ne connaît pas la crise »), April 2021
· Les nouvelles routes de la soie au service de la puissance économique chinoise, Diplomatie - Les grands dossiers N°45, Juin-Juillet 2018, with Renard, M. F.
· 2023 - present: Alima Traore, with Jean-François Brun and Emilie Caldeira
Funding from ANR-DFG TEFISCON project : "Tax expenditures and the fiscal contract in developing countries"
· 2023 - 2025: Pengd-Wendé Richard Nikiema, with Vianney Dequiedt; funding from World Bank, C3A program Capacity on Climate Action (Etienne Espagne and Bastien Bedossa); research project: “Green Finance, Efficiency and Prospects for Effective Resource Mobilization for Climate Action"
2021-2025:
· Workshop on the Greenshift in the global economy: global value chains, innovation and policies; Sapienza University of Rome
· 2nd workshop on Tax expenditures and the fiscal contract (Tefiscon); German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), online
· 1st workshop on Tax expenditures and the fiscal contract (Tefiscon); German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Bonn
· Asian Economic Development Conference 2022, Asian Development Bank (hybrid, online-Tokyo)
· Seminar at Gretha (University of Bordeaux – Cnrs), online
· 8th French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (FAERE) Conference, Grenoble
· Seminar at CERDI, online
2016-2019:
· 6th Annual Meeting of the International Consortium for China Studies (Carter Center, Atlanta)
· 5th Annual Meeting of International Consortium on Chinese Studies (HKUST, Hong Kong)
· 11th and 12th International Conferences on the Chinese Economy (CERDI, Clermont-Ferrand)
· 23rd International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance (Fordham University, New York)
· 3rd International Conference on the Chinese Economy (Tsinghua University, Beijing)
· ADRES Conference 2017 (Toulouse School of Economics)
· 6th and 7th SEBA-GATE Workshops (GATE, Lyon, and SEBA, Beijing)
· LEREPS PhD Workshops (2016 et 2017, Toulouse)
· RES PhD meeting 2017 (Westminster Business School, London)
2014-2015:
· 4th PhD Conference in International Macroeconomics and Financial Econometrics (University of Paris-Nanterre)
· 5th SEBA-GATE Workshop (Fudan University, Shanghai)
· 13th T2M Conference (Humboldt University, Berlin)
· 13th Infinity Conference on International Finance (Ljubljana)
· 32nd GDRE Workshop (Nice, ISEM)
· 2nd Lyon-Turin PhD Workshop (Collegio San Alberto, Turin)
· 11èmes Doctoriales MACROFI (Sciences Po Aix)
· 63ème congrès de l’AFSE (ENS Lyon)
· Internal seminars at GATE-CNRS (Lyon)
· January 2025: EPRC (Economic Policy Research Center), Kampala
· November 2024: LASAARE (Laboratoire de statistique appliquée à l'analyse et la recherche en économie, Hassan II University), Casablanca
· November 2018: Fudan University (Shanghai)
· December 2016: Beijing Normal University
· August 2014 to January 2015: Beijing Normal University
· Monitoring committee of PhD students, CERDI; 2020 - present
· Organization committee of conferences: 12th International conference on the chinese economy (CERDI, Clermont-Ferrand, 2019) ; International conference on development economics (CERDI-Afdev, Clermont-Ferrand, 2022);
Participation in conference organization: 11th conference on Theories and Methods in Macroeconomics (T2M, ENS Lyon; 2013); 63rd AFSE congress (ENS Lyon; 2014); 11th international conference on the chinese economy (CERDI, Clermont-Ferrand ; 2017)
· Project Cai Yuanpei - funded by the French Embassy in China, collaboration with Fudan University in Shanghai (2018-2021), with C.Luo, C.Macaire, M-F Renard, S.Shuo and J.Zhang; “The Belt and Road Initiative and the China-France economic new era: perspectives from trade upgrading and RMB internationalization”.
· Meetings of french researchers in China (french embassy; Chengdu, 2014; Beijing, 2016)
· Barcelona Macroeconomics summer school (The macroeconomics of financial globalization ; Recent developments in forecasting: estimation and evaluation ; CREI-Universitat Pompeu Fabra; 2013)