Short Bio

• Current Position:
  Head of the Structural Policy Analysis Division, Banque de France
  
• Business Address:
  31, rue Croix des Petits Champs - 75049, Paris CEDEX 01, France
  
• Phone:
  +33 1 42 92 33 27
• Mail:
  christophe.cahn@banque-france.fr
• Business Experience:
  Banque de France since 2004.
  Financial Analyst: EY, Engie, 2001-2003.
• Education:
  Paris School of Economics, Ph.D., 2011
  École Centrale Paris, 2001
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Ongoing Projects

• NewDSGE Models in Central Banks: Progress and Prospects, 2026
  with P. Fève and J. Matheron.
• NewFirm Ownership and the Structure of Banking Relationships, 2026
  with E. Croci, M. Girotti and F. Salvadè.
• Aggregate and Distributional Implications of a Military Buildup, 2026
  with M. Boullot, E. Challe and J. Matheron.

Published Research Papers

• The Long-Run Effects of Fiscal Rebalancing in a Heterogeneous-Agent Model, 2026
  with P. Fève and J. Matheron,
  European Economic Review.
• Unconventional Monetary Policy and Bank Lending Relationships, 2024
  with A. Duquerroy and W. Mullins,
  Management Science.
• Credit Ratings and the Hold-Up Problem in the Loan Market, 2023
  with M. Girotti and F. Salvadè,
  Management Science.
• Entrepreneurship and Information on Past Failures: A Natural Experiment, 2021
  with M. Girotti and A. Landier,
  Journal of Financial Economics.
• Can the Provision of Long-Term Liquidity Help to Avoid a Credit Crunch? Evidence from the Eurosystem’s LTROs, 2019
  with P. Andrade, H. Fraisse, and J.-S. Mésonnier,
  Journal of the European Economic Association.
• Assessing the Macroeconomic Effects of LTROs During the Great Recession, 2017
  with J. Matheron and J.-G. Sahuc,
  Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.
• Macro-Prudential Policy and the Conduct of Monetary Policy , 2014
  with D. Beau, L. Clerc, and B. Mojon,
  Central Banking, Analysis, and Economic Policies Book Series.
• Competition, R&D, and the Cost of Innovation, 2013
  with P. Askenazy and D. Irac,
  Oxford Economic Papers.
• Potential Growth in Several Industrial Economies: a Comparison, 2010
  with A. Saint-Guilhem,
  Empirical Economics.
• Issues on Potential Growth Measurement and Comparison: How Structural Is the Production Function Approach?, 2009
  with A. Saint-Guilhem,
  St. Louis FED Review.
• Variantes en Univers Incertain , 2008
  with S. Adjemian, A. Devulder, and N. Maggiar,
  Économie et Prévision.
• Is the Inflation-Output Nexus Asymmetric in the Euro Area? Some evidence for France, Germany and Italy, 2007
  with M. Baghli and H. Fraisse,
  Economics Letters.
• More on IDEAS (to access other non-academic writings), Google Scholar, and Amazon (French textbook in Quantitative Macro)...

Miscellaneous

• Dynare Syntax Highlighting: VScode extension (GitHub repo)
• Stata Datasets Extractor: A Python script that processes Stata do-files to extract dataset information (GitHub repo)