Alain de Serres

Alain de Serres Counsellor to the Chief Economist OECD Economics Department Contact information [email protected]

Education MA, Economics, University of Québec at Montréal, 1985 BA, Economics, University of Québec at Montréal, 1983

Professional experience OECD, 1996-present Canadian Ministry of Finance, 1995 Bank of Canada, 1985-94

Selected publications “Tackling Unemployment in a Weak Post-Crisis Recovery: Policies to Facilitate the Return to Work”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, Forthcoming. (With F. Murtin and C. de la Maisonneuve) Also forthcoming in Comparative Economic Studies, March 2012, Palgrave MacMillan “Do Policies Reduce that Unemployment Raise its Volatility? Evidence from OECD Countries”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, Forthcoming, (with F. Murtin). “The Ins and Outs of Unemployment: The Role of Labour Market Institutions”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, Forthcoming, (with F. Murtin and A. Hijzen). “A welfare analysis of climate change mitigation policies”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, No. 908, 2011 (with F. Murtin). “The political economy of climate change mitigation policies: how to build a constituency to address global warming?”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, No. 887, 2011 (with J. Llewellyn and P. Llewellyn). “A Framework for Assessing Green Growth Policies”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, No. 774, 2010 (with F. Murtin and G. Nicoletti). “Competitiveness, Economic Performance and Structural Policies: An OECD Perspective”, in P. De Grauwe (ed.), The Many Dimensions of Competitiveness, MIT Press, Cambridge. (with J.-P. Cotis and R. Duval), 2010.

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”Reforming the Polish tax system to improve its efficiency”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, No. 630, 2008. "Have developed countries escaped the curse of distance?", OECD Economics Department Working Paper, No. 610, 2008 (with H. Boulhol). Also published in Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 10, No.1 “The Impact of Economic Geography on GDP per Capita in OECD Countries”, In The Gravity Model in International Trade, eds. P. van Bergeijk and S. Brakman, Cambridge University Press. 2010. (with H. Boulhol) “The Contribution of Economic Geography to GDP Per Capita”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, No. 602, 2008 (with H. Boulhol and M. Molnar). “Regulation of financial systems and economic growth”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, No. 506, 2006 (with S. Kobayakawa, T. Sløk and L. Vartia), also published in Economic Studies No. 43, 2007. “Tax Treatment of Private Pension Savings in OECD Countries”, Economic Studies, No. 39, 2004 (with K.-Y. Yoo). ”Long-term budgetary implications of tax-favoured retirement plans”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, No. 393, 2004, also published in Economic Studies, No. 39, 2004) and as “Long-Term Budgetary Implications of Tax-Favoured Private Pension Schemes” in Proceedings from Public Finance Workshop on Public Debt, Banca d’Italia, 2004 (with P. Antolin and C. de la Maisonneuve) “The Decline in Private Saving Rates in OECD Countries: How Much can be Explained by Non-Wealth Determinants?”, Economic Studies, No. 36, 2003 (with F. Pelgrin). ”Structural policies and growth: a non-technical overview”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper No. 355, 2003. ”Macroeconomic policy and economic performance”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper No. 353, 2003 (with P. de Lima and M. Kennedy). Increases in business investment rates in OECD countries in the 1990s: How much can be explained by fundamentals?”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, No. 327, 2002 (with F. Pelgrin and S. Schich), also published in OECD Financial Market Trends, No. 28, 2002 and as “Buoyant Investment in OECD Economies : How Much can the Fundamentals Explain?” in Dilip K. Das (ed.), An International Finance Reader , Routledge, London, 2003. “Is the Euro Area Converging or Diverging?”, The World Economy, Vol. 25, No. 10, 2002 (with P. Lenain). ”Sectoral shifts in Europe and the United States: How they affect aggregate labour shares and the properties of wage equations”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, No. 326, 2002 (with S. Scarpetta and C. de la Maisonneuve), also published as “Falling Wages Shares in Europe and the United States : How Important is Aggregation Bias ?”, Empirica, Vol. 28, 2001. ”The width of the intra-european economic borders”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, No. 304, 2001 (with P. Hoeller and C. de la Maisonneuve).

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“Tracking the euro”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, No. 298, 2001 (with L. Boone, V. Koen and N. Fuchs), published as "L’insoutenable légèreté de l’euro", Economie Internationale, No. 88, 2001. “Estimating Prudent Budgetary Margins for EU Countries : A Simulated SVAR Model Approach”, OECD Economic Studies, No. 30, 2000 (with T. Dalsgaard), also published in A. Brunila, M. Buti and D. Franco (eds.), The stability and Growth Pact: The Architecture of Fiscal Policy in EMU, Palgrave, London, 2001. “Estimating prudent budgetary margins for 11 EU countries- A simulated SVAR model approach”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, No. 216, 1999 (with T. Dalsgaard). “The macroeconomic implications of ageing in a global context”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, No.193, 1998 (with D. Turner, C. Giorno, A. Vourc’h and P. Richardson). “Selection of the Truncation Lag in SVARs (or VECMs) with Long-Run Restrictions”, Bank of Canada Working Paper No. 95-9, 1995 (with A. Guay). “Estimating and Projecting Potential Output using SVAR Methodology: The Case of the Mexican Economy”, Bank of Canada Working Paper No. 95-2, 1995 (with A. Guay and P. St-Amant). “Optimum Currency Areas and Shock Asymmetry: A Comparison of the United States and Europe”, Bank of Canada Working Paper No. 94-1, 1994 (with N. Chamie and R. Lalonde). « Les sources des fluctuations des taux de change en Europe et leurs implications pour l’Union Monétaire », Recherches Économiques de Louvain, 1994 (with R. Lalonde).

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