· International economics and finance
· The Chinese economy
· Public finance and taxation
· Environmental economics
· Applied econometrics
· Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models
· (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.
· (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.
(2025): final version accepted for publication in Environmental and Development Economics.
· (2020) Rebalancing in China: a taxation approach. China Economic Review, 60, 101270.
· (2019) Le commerce franco-chinois: leçons du passé et perspectives d’avenir, Monde chinois, (3), 26-43, with Macaire, C., & Renard, M. F.
· (2018) Transition and capital misallocation: the Chinese case. Journal of International Money and Finance, 81, 88-115.
· (2018) 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.
· (2018) Transition énergétique et pollution, deux enjeux majeurs pour la Chine, Diplomatie - Les grands dossiers N°45, Juin-Juillet 2018, with Renard, M. F.
· (2017) Unbalanced credit distribution in emerging economies and FDI, Gate working paper 1532, 2017.
In progress:
· 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 fiscal contract" in developing countries (Colombia, Morocco, Uganda, Zimbabwe), with J-F. Brun and E. Caldeira, in collaboration with IDOS (German Institute for Development and Sustainability, with C. von Haldenwang, A. Von Schiller, S. Laudage)
https://cerdi.uca.fr/english-version/research-projets/tefiscon#/admin
· Policy change, mass media and air quality in China: new paths to face air pollution?, with Marchand S., Nasho Ah-Pine E., and Guo H. Presented at CEE-M, Cerdi, Clerma, Gretha, Nanjing University, 8th FAERE Conference, and Asian Economic Development Conference 2022;
Do informal pro-environmental regulations modify industrial firms’ air emissions? Evidence from environmental news in China, with Marchand S., Guo H., and Repon A.
https://cerdi.uca.fr/english-version/research-projets/air-pollution-and-mass-media-in-china#/
· Fiscal decentralization
· Capital flows in Hong Kong, with P. Gandré
· Chinese household indebtedness and the hukou system, with Brunet, C. Presented at 12th International conference on the Chinese economy.
· 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"
· 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
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)
· The Conversation, article :
https://theconversation.com/la-dette-des-menages-chinois-senvole-258655
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
· 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)