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Jean-Baptiste Michau holds a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics and is qualified to supervise research in economics. He is a professor of economics at École Polytechnique.
Research interests
Jean-Baptiste Michau's research focuses on macroeconomics, labor economics, and public finance. He has published “On the Provision of Insurance Against Search-Induced Wage Fluctuations,” Scandinavian Journal of Economics 2021, “Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a Liquidity Trap with Persistent Inflation,” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 2019, and “Optimal Social Security with Imperfect Marking” (with Oliver Denk), Scandinavian Journal of Economics 2018.
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Fiscal policy under secular stagnation: An optimal pump-priming strategy
Michau, J. B., 1 Jun 2025, In: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. 175, 105097.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Wealth preference and rational bubbles
Michau, J. B., Ono, Y. & Schlegl, M., 1 Jul 2023, In: European Economic Review. 156, 104496.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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On the Provision of Insurance against Search-Induced Wage Fluctuations*
Michau, J. B., 1 Jan 2021, In: Scandinavian Journal of Economics. 123, 1, p. 382-414 33 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Monetary and fiscal policy in a liquidity trap with inflation persistence
Michau, J. B., 1 Mar 2019, In: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. 100, p. 1-28 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Optimal Social Security with Imperfect Tagging
Denk, O. & Michau, J. B., 1 Jul 2018, In: Scandinavian Journal of Economics. 120, 3, p. 717-762 46 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Secular stagnation: Theory and remedies
Michau, J. B., 1 Jul 2018, In: Journal of Economic Theory. 176, p. 552-618 67 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Optimal labor market policy with search frictions and risk-averse workers
Michau, J. B., 1 Aug 2015, In: Labour Economics. 35, p. 93-107 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Optimal redistribution: A life-cycle perspective
Michau, J. B., 1 Jan 2014, In: Journal of Public Economics. 111, p. 1-16 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Creative destruction with on-the-job search
Michau, J. B., 1 Oct 2013, In: Review of Economic Dynamics. 16, 4, p. 691-707 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Unemployment insurance and cultural transmission: Theory and application to European unemployment
Michau, J. B., 1 Dec 2013, In: Journal of the European Economic Association. 11, 6, p. 1320-1347 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review