Charles Wyplosz (born 5 September 1947 in

Vichy Vichy (, ; ; oc, Vichèi, link=no, ) is a city in the Allier Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of central France, in the historic province of Bourbonnais. It is a Spa town, spa and resort town and in World ...

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) is a French

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

. He is an editor of the International

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and is currently the director of the International Centre for Monetary and Banking Studies (ICMB) and Professor of International Economics at the

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, Switzerland. He was a founding managing editor of ''

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''.

Education

* Engineering Degree from Ecole Centrale Paris, 1970 * Institut Supérieur de Statistiques des Universités de Paris, Certificat Supérieur d'Études, 1972 * PhD in

Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

, 1978

Career

From 1978 until 1996 he was assistant professor of economics and associate dean at

INSEAD INSEAD, a contraction of "Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires" () is a non-profit business school that maintains campuses in Europe ( Fontainebleau, France), Asia (Singapore), the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, UAE), and North America (San ...

and during the period 1986–1996 he was professor at the

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (french: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and ''grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The ...

. Since 1995 he is Professor of Economics at the

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, or the Geneva Graduate Institute (french: Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement), abbreviated IHEID, is a government-accredited postgraduate institution ...

. He has been editor of

since 1984. He has served as advisor to various governments (Russia, Cyprus, France) as well as to numerous organisations such the IMF, the World Bank, the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Asian Development Bank. He served as Director of the International Macroeconomics Programme at the

(CEPR). His areas of research are

macroeconomics Macroeconomics (from the Greek prefix ''makro-'' meaning "large" + ''economics'') is a branch of economics dealing with performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of an economy as a whole. For example, using interest rates, taxes, and ...

exchange rates In finance, an exchange rate is the rate at which one currency will be exchanged for another currency. Currencies are most commonly national currencies, but may be sub-national as in the case of Hong Kong or supra-national as in the case of t ...

and the labor market. He has worked extensively on money especially the

European Monetary System The European Monetary System (EMS) was a multilateral adjustable exchange rate agreement in which most of the nations of the European Economic Community (EEC) linked their currencies to prevent large fluctuations in relative value. It was initiate ...

, the

Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union The economic and monetary union (EMU) of the European Union is a group of policies aimed at converging the economies of member states of the European Union at three stages. There are three stages of the EMU, each of which consists of progr ...

financial crisis A financial crisis is any of a broad variety of situations in which some financial assets suddenly lose a large part of their nominal value. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many financial crises were associated with banking panics, and man ...

, and capital mobility and economic transformation of former communist economies. He has been awarded the Legion d’Honneur by the President of France.

Selected publications

* ''Macroeconomics: a European Text'' by Michael C. Burda and Charles Wyplosz (Oxford UP, 6th ed 2013 ) * ''The Economics of European Integration'' by Richard E. Baldwin and Charles Wyplosz (McGraw Hill, 2nd ed 2006, ))

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wyplosz, Charles Living people French economists 1947 births People from Vichy Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni École Centrale Paris alumni Academic staff of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Academic staff of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences