Isabelle MÉJEAN

Bio

Isabelle Méjean is a professor at the Ecole Polytechnique, after being attached to CEPII and then to the IMF. She defended her thesis at the Paris School of Economics in 2006 and is currently a research fellow affiliated with CREST, CEPR and the Institut des Politiques Publiques. His work has been published in renowned international academic journals (Econometrica, American Economic Review etc...) and is at the intersection of theories of international trade and international macroeconomics. It is interested in the effects of microeconomic structures of production on macroeconomic balance and the impact of networks of firm-Firms on international markets by using very fine-grained, disaggregated databases which make it possible to account for the strong heterogeneity of firms engaged in the world market. She succeeds Stefanie Stantcheva, and other economists who won this award at the beginning of their careers, and who are now recognized in academic and economic circles: Esther Duflo, 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, Thomas Piketty, professor at the Ecole d'économie de Paris; Philippe Martin, Chairman of the Prime Minister’s Council for Economic Analysis; Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, professor at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and member of the High Council for Financial Stability.