Pierre-guillaume Méon
Professor
Economics
Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management
Belgium
Biography
Pierre-Guillaume Méon is Professor of Economics at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He has been the director of Centre Emile Bernheim since 2009. He received his PhD in 1999 from the Robert Schuman University (Strasbourg, France), where he obtained his first full-time position as an associate professor (maître de conférences). He specialises in political macroeconomics and economic integration. His main fields of interest now include the political economy of monetary policy, and the impact of political institutions on economic performance. He has published several articles on those topics in international refereed journals such as the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, World Development, Public Choice, the European Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Comparative Economics, or the Journal of International Money & Finance. He is also a member of the editorial board of Public Choice, of the European Journal of Political Economy, and of the Brussels Economic Review/Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles.
Research Interest
Political economy of monetary policy, Impact of political institutions on economic performance
Publications
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Hayo B, Méon PG (2013) Behind closed doors: Revealing the ECB’s decision rule. Journal of international money and finance 37: 135-160.
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Méon PG, Minne G (2014) Mark my Words: Information and the Fear of Declaring one’s Exchange Rate Regime. Journal of development economics 107: 244-261.
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Dreher A, Méon PG, Schneider F (2014) The devil is in the shadow: Do institutions affect income and productivity or only official income and official productivity? Public choice 107: 121-141.
