Maxime Menuet 

Full Professor in Economics
University Côte d'Azur, France

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 maxime.menuet@univ-cotedazur.fr

News: 

• I am honored to be included in the 2026 Choiseul Sud Top 100, a ranking by the Institut Choiseul recognizing 100 emerging leaders shaping the economic future of Southern France. Read the article.

• Our paper, "Reforming the Provision of Public Safety: Institutional Responses to Protests," was presented at the 2026 NBER Summer Institute (Law and Economics). 

• New NBER Working Paper (with Barry Eichengreen and Gregory Donnat): From Stocks to Flows: Debt Service and Fiscal Sustainability. The paper revisits fiscal sustainability by showing that governments respond primarily to debt-service costs rather than to the level of public debt itself.

• I am honored to have been nominated for the 2026 Best Young French Economist Award, awarded by Le Monde and the Cercle des économistes https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2026/03/31/states-respond-to-the-cost-of-debt-not-to-debt-itself_6751966_19.html

Research interests: Economic Theory, Political Economy, and Public Finance, with an interest in institutions, beliefs, and economic imaginaries.