RESUME
Pierre-Guillaume Méon has been Professor of Economics at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) since 2004. He obtained his PhD in 1999 from the Université Robert Schuman (Strasbourg, France).
His work is in the field of political economy. He has worked on the political economy of monetary policy and monetary integration, the institutional dimensions of economic development, corruption, and democratic transitions.
His work has appeared in international peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Development Economics, the British Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Economic History, the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Public Choice, the European Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Comparative Economics, or the Journal of International Money & Finance.
He is also a member of the editorial board of Public Choice and the European Journal of Political Economy.
His work is in the field of political economy. He has worked on the political economy of monetary policy and monetary integration, the institutional dimensions of economic development, corruption, and democratic transitions.
His work has appeared in international peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Development Economics, the British Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Economic History, the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Public Choice, the European Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Comparative Economics, or the Journal of International Money & Finance.
He is also a member of the editorial board of Public Choice and the European Journal of Political Economy.
RESEARCH FIELDS
Political economics | Institutional economics | Development economics | International economics | Macroeconomics | Economics of culture
KEYWORDS
Development | Institutions | Culture | Democracy | Discrimination | Trust | European integration | Populism
most representative publications
- Mark my words: Information and the fear of declaring an exchange rate regime, with Geoffrey Minne, Journal of Development Economics, vol. 107, pp. 244-261, March 2014.
- Global racist contagion following Donald Trump's election, with Marco Giani, British Journal of Political Science, vol. 51, 1332–1339, July 2021.
- A Positive Effect of Political Dynasties: the case of France’s 1940 enabling act, with Jean Lacroix and Kim Oosterlinck, forthcoming in the Journal of Economic History, June 2023.
- A resource-rich neighbor is a misfortune: The spatial distribution of the resource curse in Brazil, with Phoebe W. Ishak, forthcoming in Economic Development and Cultural Change.
- Pro-social behavior after a disaster: Evidence from a storm hitting an open-air festival, with Philip Verwimp, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 198, 493–510, June 2022.
- Democratic transitions can attract foreign direct investment: Effect, trajectories, and the role of political risk, with Jean Lacroix and Khalid Sekkat, Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 49, 340–357, June 2021.
- Perceived corruption and government level: Far away politicians are perceived as more corrupt, with Abel François, European Journal of Political Economy, 67, March 2021.
- Do Banking crises improve democracy?, with Beni Kouevi-Gath and Laurent Weill, Public Choice, vol. 186 n°3-4, pp. 413–446, March 2021.
- The minority ethic: Rethinking religious denominations, minority status, and educational achievement across the globe, with Ilan Tojerow, Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 47 n°1, pp. 196-214, March 2019.
- Taxing the unobservable: The impact of the shadow economy on inflation and taxation, with Ummad Mazhar, World Development, vol. 90, pp. 89-103, 2017.
- The formal and informal institutional framework of capital accumulation, with Khalid Sekkat, Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 43 n°3, pp. 754-771, August 2015.
- The productivity of trust, with Christian Bjørnskov, World Development, vol. 70, pp. 317-331, June 2015.
- The devil is in the shadow: Do institutions affect income and productivity or only official income and official productivity?, with Axel Dreher and Friedrich Schneider, Public Choice, vol. 158 n°1, pp. 121-141, January 2014.
- Trust as the missing root of institutions, education, and development, with Christian Bjørnskov, Public Choice, vol. 157 n°3-4, pp. 641-669, December 2013.
- Behind closed doors: Revealing the ECB’s decision rule, with Bernd Hayo, Journal of International Money and Finance, vol. 37, pp. 135-160, October 2013.
- FDI waves, waves of neglect of political risk, with Khalid Sekkat, World Development, vol. 40 n°11, pp. 2194-2205, November 2012.
- The not so dark side of trust: Does trust increase the size of the shadow economy?, with Johanna D’Hernoncourt, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 81 n°1, pp. 97-121, January 2012.
- Is corruption an efficient grease?, with Laurent Weill, World Development, vol. 38 n°3, pp. 244-259, March 2010. Reprinted in Jayasri Dutta and Toke S. Aidt (eds), Corruption and Economic Development, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics series, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016.
- Majority voting may not rule in monetary unions: A comment on Matsen and Røisland [Eur. J. Political Economy 21 (2005) 365-384], European Journal of Political Economy, vol.24 n°1, pp. 269-279, March 2008.
- Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of growth?, with Khalid Sekkat, Public Choice, vol. 122 n°1-2, pp. 69-97, January 2005.
- The viability of fixed exchange rate commitments: Does politics matter? A theoretical and empirical investigation with J.-M. Rizzo, Open Economies Review, vol. 13 n°2, pp. 111-132, April 2002. The paper was awarded the Open Economies Review First Prize Award for 2002.
