Macroeconomics

Fiscal policy, recessions, government spending, the Euro, news shocks, labor, inequalities etc...

The macroeconomics group at TSE brings together faculty and graduate students working in macroeconomics and international economics.The research of the group are published in leading general and field journals.

The faculty teaches undergraduate and graduate classes, where full sequences of core and field classes are offered.

Activities of the group

  • the weekly macro seminar, taking place on Tuesdays 17:00-18:30;
  • a weekly workshop where graduate students and faculty present early stage research;
  • a weekly reading group for graduate students;
  • conferences, either in Toulouse or in Paris, in the context of our partnership with the Banque de France and other institutions.

List of Faculty, PhD Students and other members

Adrien Amzallag

TSE PhD Student

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Tiziana Assenza

TSE Research Faculty

Associate Professor of Economics, TSE

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Sergi Barcons Llorach

TSE PhD Student

Supervisor: Fabrice Collard

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Charles Brendon

TSE Associate Faculty

El-Erian Fellow in Macroeconomics, Faculty of Economics and Queens’ College, Cambridge

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Fabrice Collard

TSE Research Faculty

Director of the Doctoral School, Senior Researcher, CNRS

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Martial Dupaigne

TSE Research Faculty

Professor of Economics, University of Montpellier 3

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Patrick Fève

TSE Research Faculty

Professor of Economics, TSE

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Maria Frech

TSE PhD Student

Supervisor: Christian Hellwig

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Alexandre Gaillard

TSE Associate Faculty

Supervisor: Patrick Fève

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Eugenia Gonzalez-Aguado

TSE Research Faculty

Assistant Professor of Economics, TSE, On Leave

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Dogukan Guney

TSE PhD Student

Supervisors: Patrick Fève & Tiziana Assenza

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Christian Hellwig

TSE Research Faculty

Professor of Economics, TSE

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List of articles, working papers

Extreme Poverty in Wealthy Nations: Evidence from France

Christophe Alain Bruneel-Zupanc, Alexandre Gaillard, Christian Hellwig, Philipp Wangner, and Nicolas Werquin

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1777, ,

Anonymous Accountability

Georgy Lukyanov, and Muslim Salakhov

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1781,

Defense Feedback and Global-Game Selection

Georgy Lukyanov, and Yaroslav Yosifov

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1782,

Reputation, Disclosure, and the Scope of Entry

Rubik Khachatryan, and Georgy Lukyanov

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1788,

Defensive Pessimism: Growth, Culture, and the Survival of Evidence

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1784,

Reputation without a Control Group

Shubh Lashkery, and Georgy Lukyanov

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1789,

Task Architecture and Learning from Coarse Performance

Ekaterina Korotkova, and Georgy Lukyanov

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1790,

Hidden Eligibility and the Credibility of Adoption

Georgy Lukyanov, and Mikhail Zolotarev

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1786,

Opinions Before Evidence: Dynamic Information Quality and Source Familiarity

Georgy Lukyanov, and Nikita Ogorodnikov

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1787,

Effort without Evidence

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1785,

Taxing Capital to Protect It

Georgy Lukyanov, and Hengrina Ly

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1791,

Louder than Rates: the Systematic Nature of Central Bank Communication

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1761,

List of seminars of the group

To be announced

  • Seminar

  • Macroeconomics Seminar

  • Date 1 December 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Mishel Ghassibe (CREI, Barcelona)

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Interest Rate Surprises When the Fed Doesn't Speak

  • Seminar

  • Macroeconomics Seminar

  • Date 3 November 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Silvia Miranda Agrippino (Oxford University)

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Past

The EU Miracle: When 75 Million Reach High Income

  • Seminar

  • Macroeconomics Seminar

  • Date 13 October 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Basile Grassi (Bocconi University)

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Past

Monetary policy in the Euro Area, when Phillips curves ... are curves

  • Seminar

  • Macroeconomics Seminar

  • Date 2 June 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Guido Ascari

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Past

To be announced

  • Seminar

  • Macroeconomics Seminar

  • Date 19 May 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Christopher Clayton

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Labor market polarization and inequality: A Roy model perspective

  • Seminar

  • Macroeconomics Seminar

  • Date 12 May 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Luisa Fuster

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Inflation Expectations of Savers and Borrowers

  • Seminar

  • Macroeconomics Seminar

  • Date 5 May 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Francesca Monti

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The Inflation Uncertainty Amplifier

  • Seminar

  • Macroeconomics Seminar

  • Date 14 April 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Efrem Castelnuovo

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Past

Hanksson

  • Seminar

  • Macroeconomics Seminar

  • Date 31 March 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Florin Bilbiie

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Merger Policy for Platforms: AGrowthTheory Perspective

  • Seminar

  • Macroeconomics Seminar

  • Date 24 March 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Jane Olmstead-Rumsey

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Past

Creating Expectations: Propaganda and the Economic Recovery in Nazi Germany

  • Seminar

  • Macroeconomics Seminar

  • Date 17 March 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Stephanie Ettmeier

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Past

Structural Reinforcement Learning for Heterogeneous Agent Macroeconomics

  • Seminar

  • Macroeconomics Seminar

  • Date 10 March 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Benjamin Moll

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Contact

Patrick Fève

Group leader

Tiziana Assenza

Group secretary

Conferences

Past

Transpyrenean Macro Workshop

  • Conference

  • Date From 14 to 15 March 2024

  • Place Principat d'Andorra

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Transpyrenean Macro Workshop

  • Conference

  • Date From 23 to 24 March 2023

  • Place Principat d'Andorra

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Transpyrenean Macro Workshop

  • Conference

  • Date From 3 to 4 March 2022

  • Place Principat d'Andorra

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