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Professor Jacques Mélitz
 
Room 1.7, Mary Burton Building
School of Management and Languages
Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh, EH14 4AS
 
Tel: +44(0)131 451 3626
Fax: +44(0)131 451 3296
Email: J.Melitz@hw.ac.uk

Professor Jacques Mélitz

Professor, Department of Economics, School of Management and Languages, Heriot-Watt

 

·         Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research, since 1983.

·         Member of Board of Editors, Open Economies Review, German Economic Review.

 

 

Previous Positions

·         Professor, Department of Economics, University of Strathclyde, 2000-2006.

·         Senior Economist, Research Department, CREST-INSEE, Paris, 1974-2000.

·         Professor, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris, 1974-2000.

·         Visiting Scholar, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, May-June 1997.

·         Visiting Scholar, Bank of Italy, Rome, Italy, September - November 1991.

·         Visiting Scholar, Princeton University, September - December 1989.

·         Consultant, International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C., September - December 1986.

·         Consultant, Division of International Finance, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve, Washington D.C., September - October 1985.

·         Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, September 1983 - January 1984.

·         Managing Editor, Annales de l’I.N.S.E.E., January 1977- September 1983.

 

 

RESEARCH

 

Recent Discussion Papers

§         Mélitz, J. "Labour Market Adjustment, Social Spending and the Automatic Stabilizers in the OECD" (with Julia Darby), CEPR Discussion Paper No. 6230, April 2007.

§         Mélitz, J. "Discussion of Richard Baldwin, 'The euro's trade effects'" (European Central Bank conference, June 16-17, 2005).

§         Mélitz, J. "A Possible Reform of the Fiscal Policy Framework in the EMU" (CEPR Economic Policy Roundtable, Athens, 19-20 May, 2003).

 

 

Recent Books

§         Mélitz, J. and Paul De Grauwe (eds) (2005) Monetary Unions After EMU, MIT Press.

§         Mélitz, J., V. Alexander and G. von Furstenberg (eds) (2004) Monetary Unions and Hard Pegs: Why, Effects on Trade, Financial Developments and Stability, Oxford University Press and CEPR.

§         Mélitz, J., Christian Bordes and Eric Girardin (eds) (1995) European Currency Crises and After, Manchester University Press.

 

 

Recent Articles

§         Mélitz, J. (2008) "Social Spending and Automatic Stabilizers in the OECD,” Economic Policy, October, pp. 716-756 (with Julia Darby).

§         Mélitz, J. (2008) "Language and Foreign Trade", European Economic Review, May, pp. 667-699.

§         Mélitz, J. (2008) "Trade Costs, Trade Balances and Current Accounts: An Application of Gravity to Multilateral Trade" Open Economies Review, DOI 10.1007/s11079-008-9082-8 (with Giorgio Fazio and Ronald MacDonald).

§         Mélitz, J. (2007) "The Impact of English Dominance on Literature and Welfare," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 64, pp. 193-215 

§         Mélitz, J. (2007) "North, South and Distance in the Gravity Model," European Economic Review, May, pp. 971-991.

§         Mélitz, J. (2006) "Non-discretionary and Automatic Fiscal Policy in the EU and the OECD," in Servaas Deroose, Elena Flores, Alessandro Torrini and Paul Wierts, eds., Fiscal Surveillance in EMU: New Issues and Challenges, Palgrave.

§         Mélitz, J. (2004) "Risk-sharing and EMU," Journal of Common Market Studies, pp.815-840.

§         Mélitz, J. (2004). "Editorial introduction" in Volbert Alexander, George von Furstenberg and Jacques Mélitz, (eds) Monetary Unions and Hard Pegs: Why, Effects on Trade, Financial Developments and Stability, Oxford University Press and CEPR, Chapter 1.

§         Mélitz, J. (2004) "Geography, Trade and Currency Union" in Volbert Alexander, George von Furstenberg and Jacques Mélitz, (eds) Monetary Unions and Hard Pegs: Why, Effects on Trade, Financial Developments and Stability, Oxford University Press and CEPR, Chapter 5.

§         Mélitz, J. (2003) "Statement" to HM Treasury" in Submissions on EMU from Leading Academics, pp. 171-174.

§         Mélitz, J. (2003) "Discussion of David Laidler," ‘The role of the history of economic thought in modern macroeconomics’," in Paul Mizen, ed., Monetary History, Exchange Rates and Financial Markets: Essays in Honour of Charles Goodhart, Volume two, Edgar Elgar.

§         Mélitz, J. and Frédéric Zumer (2002) "Regional Redistribution and Stabilization by the Center in Canada, France, the United Kingdom and the United States: A Reassessment and New Tests", Journal of Public Economics, pp.263-286.

§         Mélitz, J. (2001) "Debts, Deficits and the Behaviour of Monetary and Fiscal Authorities," in Marco Buti, Jürgen von Hagen and Carlos Martinez-Mongay, eds., The Behaviour of Fiscal Authorities, Palgrave, ed. , ch. 12.

§         Mélitz, J. (2000) "Some Cross-country Evidence about Fiscal Policy Behaviour and Consequences for EMU," European Commission, European Economy, Reports and Studies, Public Debt and Fiscal Policy in EMU, No. 2, Ch. 1. Download Tables

§         Mélitz, J. and Frédéric Zumer (1999) "Smoothing of Regional Shocks within Countries and Lessons for EMU" Carnegie-Rochester Conference series on Public Policy, Volume 51, pp 149-188. Download Tables

§         Mélitz, J., Michael Artis and Marion Kohler (1998) "Trade and the Number of OCA's [optimal currency areas] in the World," Open Economies Review, Supplement 1, pp. 537-568.

§         Mélitz, J. (1997) "The Evidence about the Costs and Benefits of EMU", report to the Swedish Government Commission on Monetary Union, Swedish Economic Policy Review, pp. 359-410.

§         Mélitz, J. and Hélène Erkel-Rousse (1997)"New Empirical Evidence on the Costs of European Monetary Union," in Sylvester Eijffinger and Harry Huizinga, eds., Positive Political Economy: Theory and Evidence, Cambride University Press; also CEPR Working Paper no. 1169, May 1995.

§         Mélitz, J. and Claire Waysand (1996) "The Role of Government Aid to Firms during the Transition to a Market Economy: Russia 1992-1994", Journal of Policy Reform pp. 299-334; also CEPR Working Paper no. 1035, Sept. 1994.

§         Mélitz, J., Andrew Hughes Hallett and Yue Ma (1996) "Unification and the Policy Predicament in Germany", Economic Modelling, pp. 519-544.

§         Mélitz, J. (1996) "The Theory of Optimum Currency Areas, Trade Adjustment and Trade", Open Economies Review, pp. 99-116.

§         Mélitz, J. and Axel Weber (1996) "The Costs/Benefits of a Common Monetary Policy in France and Germany and possible lessons for Monetary Union," CEPR working paper no. 1374, French version published in Economie Internationale,  no. 65, first trimester 1996.

§         Mélitz, J. (1996), "Assessing the Costs of European Monetary Union," Atlantic Economic Journal, pp. 269-80; and Kredit und Kapital, 1998, special supplement, heft 14, pp. 59-73.

§         Mélitz, J. (1995) "A Suggested Reformulation of the Theory of Optimal Currency Areas", Open Economies Review, pp. 281-95.

§         Mélitz, J. (1995) "The Current Impasse in research on Optimum Currency Areas", European Economic Review, pp. 492-500.

 

 

 

 

Last updated: 20 October 2008