Ouarda Merrouche

Full Professor of Economics

Université Paris-Nanterre

Email: ouarda.merrouche@alumni.eui.eu

 

Email 1: ouarda.merrouche@alumni.eui.eu

Email 2: omerrouche@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

CURRENT POSITION

 

 

Since September 2016, Full Professor of Economics, Director Master in Banking and Finance, Université Paris Nanterre and UMR-CNRS EconomiX

 

 

 

PAST RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

 

2019-2023,  BIS Research Fellow (x2), Basel, Switzerland 

 

2018-2023, External Lecturer  and visiting researcher, University of Zurich, Institute of Banking and Finance

 

September 2014-August 2016, Privat Docent and Research Fellow, University of Lausanne, DEEP, ERC project contributor

 

Spring 2016 and Fall 2022, Part-time Lecturer, Global Institute and GSEM, University of Geneva, Switzerland 

 

November 2012-September 2014, Researcher and Program Manager, Capacity Building for Central Banks, in collaboration with SECO and Graduate Institute Geneva, Courses and Research training for central bankers in Vietnam, Ghana, Tunisia, and Azerbaijan

 

February-July 2013 and 2014 Part-Time Lecturer, University of Bern, Department of Economics

 

August 2009 to October 2010, The World Bank Research Department DEC, Economist, Finance Research Group and External Consultant Chief Economist Financial Sector, Global Financial Development Report 2012 contributor, chapter on Large Value Payment Systems.

 

PAST POLICY EXPERIENCE

 

External Expert, IMF MCM department, Mission to UAE, July 2021

 

December 2010 to October 2012, European Commission (ESMA), Senior Economist, Research and Financial Stability Department

 

May 2007 to August 2009, The Bank of England, Economist-Data Analyst, Payment Systems and Infrastructure Division, Financial Stability Directorate, London UK

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches 2015, Toulouse School of Economics, Director: Prof Jean-Charles Rochet

PhD in Economics 2005, European University Institute, Department of Economics, Florence, Italy

Master 2 (DEA) in Economics, Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne (Paris School of Economics)

BA and Master 1 in Economics, Université Lumière Lyon II, Lyon, France.

M.A. (D.U) in European Studies, Institut D’Etudes Politiques SciencePo, Lyon, France

 

 FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS

 

Empirical evaluations of post-crisis reforms, financed by an ANR-SNSF grant, 120.000 euro, 2019-2022, with Steven Ongena

 

Capital Flows and Imperfect Information, financed by a SNSF grant, 236.000 CHF, 2019-2022, with Kenza Benhima

 

Capital Flows to Emerging Markets: Recent Mutations, financed by a SNSF grant, 18000 CHF, with Philippe Bacchetta

 

Are Too-Big-To-Fail Policies Effective?: Insights from the COVID-19 Stress Test, financed by Institut Europlace Finance, 10000 euro, with Steven Ongena

 

 

AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS

 

 

ANR and SNSF grant, 110 K Euro 2019-2022

 

BIS Research Fellowship 2 x

International Monetary Fund visiting scholarship, Kuwait Training Center April 2013,

CNRS SMI grant, 2018

Senior Fernand Fernand Braudel Fellowship, European University Institute, Department of Economics, Florence Italy, January 2006-January 2007

Marie Curie Fellowship, RTN network in Microdata Methods September 2003 to May 2005

Research Assistant Grant, Robert Schuman Center for Advance Studies, EURO-GULF Energy Project financed Florence Italy

CAREFIN Universita Bocconi Research Grant (Joint with Mike Mariathasan Oxford and Charlotte Werger EUI) 2013 

BIS-GAMMA Foundation Research Award joint with Viral V. Acharya NYU Stern 2008 ENTER Fellowship,

IDEA program grant Universita Autonoma de Bracelona 2003-2004

LAVOISIER Fellowship for Doctoral Dissertation, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2000-2002)

European University Completion Grant, November 2004 -April 2005

 

 

REFEREE ACTIVITIES

 

Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Finance, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Money Credit and Banking,  Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Stability, Journal of International Money and Finance,  Economic Notes, International Finance, International Review of Economics and Finance, World Development, African Development Review, Peace Economics Peace Science and Public Policy, Journal of Productivity Analysis, North American Economic Journal, Economics Letters.

 

 

 

LANGUAGES

French: Native; English: Fluent; Spanish: Fair; Arabic: Conversational, Italian: Conversational



PUBLISHED ARTICLES

Number of google citations as of December 2023:  4793

 

 

BOOK CHAPTERS AND POLICY REPORTS and NON-REFEREED ARTICLES

 

 

SUBMITTED WORKING PAPERS

 

 

INTERVIEWS  AND BLOG POSTS

 

REFEREE ACTIVITIES

Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Finance, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Banking and Finance,  Journal of Corporate Finance, Economic Notes, Journal of International Money and Finance, International Review of Economics and Finance, International Finance, World Development, Peace Economics Peace Science and Public Policy, Journal of Productivity Analysis, North American Economic Journal, International Journal of Central Banking, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Management Science.