Resident Scholars
Jean Pisani-Ferry
Expertise :Macroeconomics.
Phone : +32 2 227 4210
Email : ann.vangyseghem@bruegel.org
Website : pisani-ferry.typepad.com/home/
Jean Pisani-Ferry has been director of Bruegel since January 2005. He is also a professor of economics with Université Paris-Dauphine.
Pisani-Ferry has made his career in research and policy. After having held positions in research and government in France, he joined the European Commission in 1989 as economic adviser to the Director-General of DG ECFIN. From 1992 to 1997 he was the director of CEPII, the main French research centre in international economics. In 1997, he became senior economic adviser to the French minister of Finance and was later appointed executive president of the French prime minister’s Council of Economic Analysis (2001-2002). From 2002 to 2004, he was senior adviser to the director of the French Treasury.
Pisani-Ferry has held teaching positions with various universities including Ecole polytechnique in Paris and Université libre de Bruxelles. In 2006-2007, he was president of the French economic association.
He is a member of two independent consultative groups: the European Commission president’s Group of Economic Policy Analysis and the French PM’s Council of Economic Analysis.
Born in 1951, Pisani-Ferry was initially trained as an engineer and also holds a Master in mathematics. He holds an advanced degree in economics from the Centre d'études des programmes économiques (CEPE, Paris).
Pisani-Ferry has a regular column in Le Monde and Handelsblatt.
Jean Pisani-Ferry's Publications
- BLUEPRINTS ▼
- BOOKS ▼
- POLICY BRIEFS ▼
- POLICY CONTRIBUTIONS ▼
- Can A Less Boring ECB Remain Accountable?
- Economic reforms in the euro area: is there a common agenda?
- International governance- is the G20 the right forum?
- Last exit to Lisbon
- Mediocre growth in the Euro area: is governance part of the answer
- Progressive governance and globalisation
- Reshaping the global economy
- The end of Europe's longstanding indifference to the renminbi
- The G20 is not just a G7 with extra chairs
- The International agenda: immediate priorities and longer-term challenges
- There is room for improvement in the appointment of ECB executive board members
- Weathering the storm- Fair weather versus stormy-weather governance in the euro area
- Will the current crisis trigger a revival of the IMF?
- WORKING PAPERS ▼
- Asia-Europe: The Third Link
- Banking Crisis Management in the EU: An Interim Assessment
- Fiscal policy in EMU: towards a sustainability and growth pact
- Government size and output volatility: should we forsake automatic stabilisation?
- The accidental player: The EU and the global economy
- The Crisis: Policy Lessons and Policy Challenges
- The EU and the governance of globalisation
- OPINION PIECES AND COLUMNS ▼
- A New Purpose for Public Action
- Alternatives économiques: "L‘insoutenable excédent chinois"
- Can China Change?
- Challenges: "A tale about the Euro exchange rate policy"
- Challenges: "Allemagne : moins de réformes, plus de rigueur?"
- Challenges: "Ces plombiers polonais qui nous ressemblent tant"
- Challenges: "Des déficits sans peine?"
- Challenges: "Et si la France se mettait é dos la zone euro?"
- Challenges: "Faut-il combattre l‘euro fort?"
- Challenges: "Faut-il conditionner les allégements de cotisations sociales?"
- Challenges: "L‘Europe va devoir choisir entre le pouvoir et ses apparences"
- Challenges: "La flexibilité favorise plus la croissance que l'emploi"
- Challenges: "Le dissensus de Bruxelles"
- Challenges: "Les Américains préfèrent átre riches qu‘en vacances"
- Challenges: "Protectionnisme?"
- Challenges: "Tuer l'euro serait idiot"
- Cinco Días: "Challenges for Rato‘s successor"
- Cinco Días: "Which way for French economic policy?"
- Eurointelligence: "A gloomy anniversary"
- Eurointelligence: "Economic consequences of Mr S."
- Eurointelligence: "In search of a goldilocks exit strategy"
- Eurointelligence: The Winner's Curse
- Eurointelligence/ Vox: "The looming divide within Europe"
- Financial Times Deutschland: "Grow the Lilliputians"
- Financial Times Deutschland: "Lessons from a momentous British week"
- Financial Times Deutschland: "Rougher times ahead for the Euro area"
- Financial Times Deutschland: "Testing times for the IMF… and for Europe"
- Financial Times Deutschland: "The struggling giants"
- Financial Times Deutschland: "Three conditions for a fruitful discussion on the Governance of the Euro area"
- Financial Times Deutschland: "Why energy is key for Europe‘s future"
- Financial Times Deutschland: "Will France and Germany diverge on Fiscal Policy?"
- Financial Times Deutschland:" Transparency is no quick fix"
- Financial Times, "Europe must take control of banking stress tests"
- Financial Times: "Europe must heed the lessons of Lisbon on Energy Policy"
- Financial Times: "Europe‘s eroding wealth of Knowledge"
- Financial Times: "In search of a balanced view of the European Bank"
- Financial Times: "Lasting Euro success requires bolder proposals"
- Financial Times: "Only teamwork can put the Eurozone on a steady course"
- Financial Times/ La Vanguardia/ Les Echos/ Gazeta Wyborcza : "Europe needs a concerted fiscal stimulus"
- Financial Times/ Les Echos: "Only basic Reform can deliver legitimacy to the Fund"
- Handelsblatt: "Should Ms Merkel ignore Europe?"
- Handelsblatt: Europe: Mission Accomplished?
- La Tribune: "Dix ans d'euro : un bilan"
- La Tribune: The next ten years of the Euro
- Last Year in Copenhagen
- Le Monde: "Between a rock and a hard place"
- Le Monde: "Bonne et mauvaise flexibilités"
- Le Monde: "Europe is against a wall"
- Le Monde: "European growth : what‘s to be done?"
- Le Monde: "Fire and ice"
- Le Monde: "Invoking the spirit of Bretton Woods"
- Le Monde: "Le divorce d'avec les chiffres"
- Le Monde: "Policy is a matter for all of the world, not just a rich club"
- Le Monde: "Some advice for the new MEPs"
- Le Monde: "Sortir de la dette publique"
- Le Monde: "Speed limit"
- Le Monde: "Stormy weather reforms"
- Le Monde: "The euro sorely tested by national crises"
- Le Monde: "Transatlantic contrasts"
- Le Monde: "We need a proper Stability Pact"
- Le Monde: "Why Europe has caught a cold"
- Le Monde: "Why the coffers are empty"
- Le Monde: "Will it Work?"
- Le Monde: Fear of Debt
- Le Monde: The orphan currency
- Le Monde: What Mark Will the Crisis Leave?
- Le Monde: Who's to pay
- Le Monde/Eurointelligence: "What was he doing at the Eurogroup?"
- Le Nouvel Economiste: "La crédibilité des engagements budgétaires français est quasi nulle"
- Les Echos: "Economic policy : why France is on the blacklist"
- Les Echos: "La légitimité passe par la croissance"
- National Journal Blog: "The Ruses of the crisis"
- National Journal Blog: "What form will the recovery take?"
- National Journal Online blog: "Sharing the burden"
- Retraites: réformer une bonne fois pour toutes
- Telos: "A crisis increasingly European"
- Telos: "Budget européen : beaucoup d'énergie pour un petit accord"
- Telos: "L'Europe sert-elle encore é quelque chose?"
- Telos: "Soumettre la BCE : une proposition sans avenir, mais pas sans conséquences"
- Telos: "The RMB affair"
- The Best Course for Greece is to Call in the Fund
- The Financial Times: Why the Euro Is Not the Next Global Currency
- Wall Street Journal: "Different economic strokes"
- Wall Street Journal: "Eastern European currencies need help now"
- Wall Street Journal: "Three wise men in the East"
- Why Europe Struggles - And How it can Recover
- Wirtschaftsregierung, mode d’emploi