Sophie CHAUVIN

  • Sophie Chauvin holds a PhD in Economics from the

    University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne . She was previously responsible for doing research on the Southern African region at the French Ministry of Cooperation and spent several months as a visiting researcher at NEPRU (Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit) in Namibia during the preparation of her thesis. She began her professional career in 1997 at the OECD Development Centre under a project on “Growth and Conflict in Africa ”. From the end of 1998 to the end of 2004, she was an economist at CEPII where her research work focused on various macroeconomic issues relating to emerging countries: regional trade integration (Southern Africa), growth ( Southeast Asia , India ) and exchange rate regimes ( Argentina ). She contributed to CEPII’s activities via her publications and by organising and participating in conferences and seminars. In 2005, she joined the Emerging Countries Economic Analysis Unit at the French Treasury and Economic Policy Directorate General, where she was in charge of monitoring macroeconomic policies in Latin American countries, as well as their relations with International Financial Institutions (IMF, WB, IDB). She joined the Franc Zone and Development Financing Studies Division at the Banque de France in August 2008, where she contributed to drafting Franc Zone annual reports and participated in seminars on emerging countries organised within the system of European Central Banks.

    Sophie joined AFD’s Macroeconomic Analysis and Country Risk Unit in February 2011.



Research work

  • Working Papers

    ‘Who has been affected, how and why? The spillover of the crisis to Sub Saharan Africa and ways to recovery”, with André Geis, ECB Occasional Paper n°124, March 2011. http://www.ecb.int/pub/pdf/scpops/ecbocp124.pdf

    “L'économie indienne: changements structurels et perspectives à long terme”, with Françoise Lemoine, CEPII Working Paper n°2005-04, April 2005. http://www.cepii.fr/francgraph/doctravail/pdf/2005/dt05-04.pdf

    “India in the World Economy: Traditional Specialisations and Technology Niches”, with Françoise Lemoine, CEPII Working Paper n°2003-09, August 2003. http://www.cepii.fr/anglaisgraph/workpap/pdf/2003/wp03-09.pdf

    “Les Systèmes de Currency Board à travers l’expérience de l’Argentine”, with Pierre Villa, CEPII Working Paper n°2003-7, July 2003. http://www.cepii.fr/francgraph/doctravail/pdf/2003/dt03-07.pdf

    “Regional Trade Integration in Southern Africa”, with Guillaume Gaulier, CEPII Working Paper n°2002-12, October 2002. http://www.cepii.fr/anglaisgraph/workpap/pdf/2002/wp02-12.pdf

    “Exit Options for Argentina with a Special Focus on Their Impact on External Trade”, CEPII Working Paper n°2001-07, October 2001. http://www.cepii.fr/anglaisgraph/workpap/pdf/2001/wp01-07.pdf

    “Structural Changes in Asia and Growth Prospects after the crisis”, with Jean-Claude Berthélemy, CEPII Working Paper n°00-09, June 2000. http://www.cepii.fr/anglaisgraph/workpap/pdf/2000/wp00-09.pdf

    “Problems with the establishment of a national currency and an independent monetary policy for a LDC: The Namibian case”, NEPRU Occasional Paper n°10, March 1997.

    “The Monetary Independence of Namibia ”, NEPRU Working Paper n°21, November 1992.

     

    Chapters in collective publications

    “What Role for the Private Sector in the Process of Regional Integration in Southern Africa”, The African Development Perspectives Yearbook Vol.10 (2003/2004), ed. the Institute for World Economics and International Management, Bremen University, 2004.

    “Prospects for Increasing Trade among SADC Countries”, with Guillaume Gaulier in Monitoring Regional Integration in Southern Africa Annual Yearbook, Vol.2, Willie Breytenbach, Trudi Hartzenberg, Dirk Hansom, Wolfgang Maier, Peter Meyns and Christian Peters-Berries (eds), Windhoek: Gamsberg Macmillan, 2002.

     

Other publications

  • “Besoins de financement et viabilité de la dette extérieure dans les pays d’Afrique subsaharienne”, with Valérie Golitin, Bulletin de la Banque de France, n°179, 1st quarter 2010. http://www.banque-france.fr/fr/publications/telechar/bulletin/etu179_4.pdf

    “Le ciblage d'inflation à travers l'expérience des pays latino américains”, with Olivier Basdevant, Diagnostics Prévisions et Analyses Économiques, n°15, March 2006.  http://www.minefe.gouv.fr/directions_services/dgtpe/dpae/pdf/2006-011-105.pdf

    “L’économie indienne en bonne voie”, with Françoise Lemoine, L’économie mondiale 2005, chap. 6, Collection Repères, La Découverte, Paris, September 2004.

    “Afrique: de nouvelles déceptions”, L’économie mondiale 2004, chap. III., Collection Repères, La Découverte, Paris. September, 2003.

    “L’Inde parie sur les niches technologiques”, with Françoise Lemoine, Lettre du CEPII n°221, March 2003.  http://www.cepii.fr/francgraph/publications/lettre/pdf/2003/let221.pdf

    “Quel avenir pour l’Argentine?”, Techniques financières et développement, Epargne sans Frontière, September 2001-December 2001, n°64-65.

    “Une reprise différenciée sur fond d’incertitudes”, Revue du Crédit Agricole, Economie et Finances Agricoles, n°307, December 2000.

    “Quels régimes de change pour les pays émergents?”, with Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Techniques financières et développement, Epargne sans Frontière, n°57/58, December 1999-March 2000.

    “The outlook for growth in Asia” with Jean-Claude Berthélemy, CEPII Newsletter, hivers 1999/2000.

    “Les industries asiatiques en convalescence” with Jean-Claude Berthélemy, Sociétal, n°24. March 1999.

    “Pays en développement”, with Jean-Claude Berthélemy, L’économie mondiale 2000, chap. III., Collection Repères, La Découverte, Paris. September 1999.

    “Conflict and Growth in Africa – Vol. 1: the Sahel” by Jean-Paul Azam and Christian Morrisson, with Sandrine Rospabé, OECD Development Centre. Paris, 1999.