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Charles Wyplosz

Affiliation: Graduate Institute, Geneva; and CEPR

Charles Wyplosz is Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute, Geneva; where he is Director of the International Centre for Money and Banking Studies. Previously, he has served as Associate Dean for Research and Development at INSEAD and Director of the PhD program in Economics at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales in Paris. He has also been Director of the International Macroeconomics Program at CEPR.

His main research areas include financial crises, European monetary integration, fiscal policy, economic transition and current regional integration in various parts of the world. He is the co-author of a leading textbook on Macroeconomics and on European economic integration. He was a founding Managing Editor of the review Economic Policy.

He serves on several boards of professional reviews and European research centres. Currently a member of the Group of Independent Economic Advisors to the President of the European Commission, and of the Panel of Experts of the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, as well as a member of the “Bellagio Group”, Charles Wyplosz is an occasional consultant to the European Commission, the IMF, the World Bank, the United Nations, the Asian Development Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank. He has been a member of the “Conseil d’Analyse Economique” which reports to the Prime Minister of France, of the French Finance Minister’s “Commission des Comptes de la Nation” and has advised the governments of the Russian Federation and of Cyprus.

He holds degrees in Engineering and Statistics from Paris and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University.

Visit: Graduate Institute, Geneva




Charles Wyplosz's Latest Articles | 15

The Impossible Hope of an End to Austerity

May 16, 2012| 

With French and Greek voters rejecting austerity, politicians are once again taking the government spending debate seriously. This column argues that the voters... Read »

The Coming Revolt Against Austerity

May 2, 2012| 

Mindless austerity is losing policy credibility in some Eurozone nations. This column suggests governments shouldn’t mix long-term growth and fiscal discipline... Read »

The ECB’s Trillion Euro Bet

Feb 14, 2012| 

Spreads on public debts in the Eurozone – with the exception of Greece – are falling hard and fast. This column argues that this is in large part because the... Read »

Eurozone: Why does the crisis linger, deepen and spread?

Jan 3, 2012| 1

Another year, and the Eurozone crisis lingers on. This column asks why, and discusses what can be done. It proposes a solution that can be achieved without the pain... Read »

Reaction to the Eurozone Crisis Talks: Getting there, Slowly Though

Dec 8, 2011| 

The night of Thursday 8 December saw a meeting to save the euro. Judging by reactions Friday morning, there is some way yet to go, but this column argues that Europe... Read »

Do Eurozone Leaders Finally ‘Get It’? Not Quite Yet

Dec 5, 2011| 

This week’s announcements by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and ECB President Mario Draghi that the Eurozone is taking steps towards a closer fiscal union seem... Read »

Public debt in the Eurozone, Japan, and the U.S.

Sep 16, 2011| 

Europe’s debt crisis is unfolding while Japanese and US debt problems are on hold. The problem of public debt in advanced economies will be with us for decades.... Read »

Is the Worst of Europe’s Crisis Behind Us? Or Yet to Come?

Jan 5, 2011| 

This column looks at 2011 and argues that the Eurozone crisis offers a unique chance to correct the “dreadful mismanagement” of the past year. 2010 was a dreadful... Read »

The European Debt Crisis: Worrisome Delusions

Dec 20, 2010| 

Lorenzo Bini-Smaghi – Member of the ECB’s Executive Board – has produced a brilliant defence of the no-default strategy currently pursued by the Eurozone... Read »

The Eurozone Slides Into a Vicious Cycle

Dec 4, 2010| 

The Eurozone crisis is not over. This column argues that the bailout of Greece and the €750 billion Special Purpose Vehicle set up in May 2010 was the first step... Read »

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