Contact information

Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales (CEPII)

20 avenue de Ségur, TSA 10726,

75334 Paris cedex 07, France 

email: carl.grekou@cepii.fr

EconomiX-CNRS

Université Paris Nanterre

200, avenue de la République

92001 Nanterre Cedex, France

email: g.grekou@parisnanterre.fr

Research

Research interest

Exchange rates, equilibrium exchange rate, exchange rate regime, macroeconomic policy, economic growth, development, competitiveness, Debt.

Work in progress

• "From nominal devaluations to real depreciations", submitted to International Economics.

• "EQCHANGE: A World Database on Actual and Equilibrium Effective Exchange Rates," (joint with Cécile Couharde, Anne-Laure Delatte, Valérie Mignon, Florian Morvillier), submitted to International Economics.
• "Currency Misalignments in emerging and developing countries: reassessing the role of Exchange Rate Regimes" (en collaboration avec Cecile COUHARDE), submitted to Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.
• "Currency misalignments and economic growth: the foreign currency-denominated debt channel", Revise & Resubmit, Economic Modelling.

• Exchange rate dynamics and bayesian belief revisions (with Imane El Ouadghiri)
• A multilateral measure of exchange rate flexibility (with Blaise Gnimassoun)
• Foreign direct investment and urbanization in Africa (with Ferdinand Owoundi)
• Monetary union membership: an equilibrium exchange rate-based approach (with Virginie Coudert, Cécile Couharde et Valérie Mignon)
• Monetary integration and stock market cross-correlations during the interwar period: an international comparison between Belgium, France and the US (with avec Cecile COUHARDE et Raphael HEKIMIAN)

Professionnal experiences

• Since June 2017 - Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales (CEPII)
   Economist (department: macroeconomic and finances), in charge of EQCHANGE

• December 2016 - April 2017 - Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales (CEPII)
   Development of EQCHANGE: a global database on actual and equilibrium exchange artes

• 2016-2017 - Temporary Lecturer and Research Assistant, University of Paris Nanterre

   Courses: Open macroeconomics (undergraduate, 2nd year), Econometrics (Bachelor and Master), Numerical methods (Bachelor).

• 2013-2016 - Teaching assistant, University of Paris Nanterre
   Courses: Open macroeconomics (undergraduate, 2nd year), Econometrics (Bachelor)

• 2013-2014 OCDE (Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économique),
Département "Africa Partnership Forum department"
        • Consulting (october 2013-january 2014)

        • Internship (june 2013-september 2013)

Education

• Ph.D. Economics with highest honors, University of Paris Nanterre, 2016 (under the supervision of Pr. Cécile Couharde)

  Title: Essays on exchange rate misalignments and exchange rate policies in developing countries and emerging economies

• M.Sc. Applied Economics with honors, University of Paris Nanterre, 2013