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Prof. Dr. Michel Beine
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| Faculty or Centre | Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance | ||||
| Department | Department of Economics and Management | ||||
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Campus Kirchberg, Université du Luxembourg 6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi L-1359 Luxembourg |
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Research Interests
International Finance, International Macroeconomics
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Michel Beine has been Full Professor in International Economics at the University of Luxembourg since September 2005.
He graduated in Economics at the University of Namur, Belgium (1991) and got a PhD in Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (1997). His PhD thesis studied the desirability of the European Monetary Union.
He has been a researcher at the Service d’Etudes et de Statistiques of the Walloon region, during which time he specialized in economic forecasting.
After his thesis, he lectured at the University of Lille II (France) until his arrival at the University of Luxembourg. Since 2000, he has also taught Monetary Theory at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Michel Beine made scientific visits to several places, including the University of Ottawa (Canada), the University of Munich (Germany) or the World bank.
Please visit his personal homepages:
https://sites.google.com/site/michelbeineeconomics/
http://ideas.repec.org/f/pbe272.html
Last updated on: Monday, 04 September 2017
Education
- June 1991 : Master in Economics, University of Namur, Belgium
- Master Thesis : Impact of Fiscal Policy on the Current Account: Theory and Evidence
- September 1997 : Phd in Economics, University of Brussels, Belgium
- Phd Thesis : EMU in Europe : Lessons from the Theory of Optimum Currency Areas
Positions
- Full professor, International Economics, University of Luxembourg
- Research fellow: IRES (Université Catholique de Louvain), CES ifo (Munich, Germany) and CREAM (UCL, London)
Fields of interest
- International finance: exchange rates; financial integration
- International Economics: international migration, trade integration, diaspora externalities.
Awards
- Winner of the 1991 prize of the Royal Belgian Society of Political Economy for the best Masters thesis entitled "L'impact de la politique budgetaire sur la balance courante: théorie et évidence empirique"
- Top 1 2001 requested paper of the Journal of Development Economics (joint with F. Docquier and H. Rapoport)
- Winner of the 2002 Milken Institute Award for Distinguished Economic Research for the following paper "Brain drain and economic growth in LDC's: who loses and who wins?" (joint with F. Docquier and H. Rapoport)
Last updated on: 10 Oct 2017
2014-2015
- International Economics , University of Luxembourg, Bachelor 3
- Econometrics 2, University of Luxembourg, Master 2
- Research seminar in Economics, University of Luxembourg, Master 1
- Econometrics 1, Université Aix-Marseille, Master 1
- The Economics of International Migration, University of Southampton, Phd
2011-2012
- Econometrics 1, University of Luxembourg, Master 1
- International Finance, University of Luxembourg, Master 1
- International Economics, University of Luxembourg, Bachelor 3
2010-2011
- The Economics of Monetary Union, University of Paris 1, Research Master
Last updated on: 04 Sep 2014
His main research interests focus on International Economics, both on its financial and real aspects. One central area of interest is the issue of the brain drain from developing countries to developed countries, and its welfare aspects. Generally speaking, his work looks at the determinants and the impact of international migration.
His work was presented in many research seminars and international conferences. Part of his work has been published in international journals such as Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, European Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics Journal of Regional Science or Economic Journal. Michel Beine is also associate editor of “International Economics” . He has worked as a consultant for various institutions such as the World Bank, Industry Canada, the Banque de France , the Economic Research Forum or the Walloon Region (Belgium).
Last updated on: 04 Sep 2014
Impala
- The impala project: building a database on migration policies comparable across countries; a joint project of Luxembourg, Harvard, Amsterdam, Sydney and the LSE.
Presentation of the global project : http://www.impaladatabase.org/
Presentation of the part of the Impala project devoted to the Luxembourg team: http://www.impaladatabase.org/team/luxembourg
International Migration
- International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility, joint with F. Docquier and M. Schiff, revised February 2012
PDF - Dissecting Network Externalities in International Migration, joint with F. Docquier and C. Ozden, revised January 2012
PDF - The Determinants of International Mobility of Students, joint with L. Ragot and R. Noël New version
PDF - Dutch Disease and the Mitigation Effect of Migration : Evidence from Canadian provinces, joint with S. Coulombe and W. Vermeulen
PDF - Skilled Migration and the Transfer of Institutional Norms, joint with K. Sekkat
PDF - Climatic factors as determinants of International Migration, joint with Chris Parsons, CES IFO Working paper no. 3747
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Last updated on: 15 May 2012
2022
Research note: Ukrainian Refugee Crisis Tests Luxembourg’s Humanitarian and Integration Policy; ; ; ;
Diverse speeches and writings (2022)
2021
A gravity analysis of refugee mobility using mobile phone data; ; ; ;
in Journal of Development Economics (2021)
COVID-19 Crisis Management in Luxembourg: Insights from an Epidemionomic Approach; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
in Economics and Human Biology (2021), 43
A Meta-Analysis of the Literature on Climate Change and Migration;
in Journal of Demographic Economics (2021)
2020
Age, Intentions and the Implicit Role of Out-Selection Factors of International MigrationE-print/Working paper (2020)
The Role of Tuition Fees in Foreign Education: Evidence from Ital; ;
in Journal of Economic Geography (2020), 20(2), 571-600
Do Potential Migrants Internalise Migrant Rights in OECD Host Societies?; ;
in Canadian Journal of Economics (2020), 53(4), 1429-1456
2019
Refugee Mobility: Evidence from Phone Data in Turkey; ; ; ; ;
in Salah, Albert Ali; Pentland, Alex; Lepri, Bruno; Letouzé, Emmanuel (Eds.) Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios: The 'Data for Refugees Challenge' Study (2019)
Aggregate Fluctuations and International Migration; ;
in Scandinavian Journal of Economics (2019), 121(1), 69-106
2018
Immmigration and Internal Mobility in Canada;
in Journal of Population economics (2018), 31(1), 69-106
2017
Climatic factors as Determinants of Migration: Redux;
in CESifo Economic Studies (2017), 63(4), 385-402
2016
The role of networks for migration flows: an updatein International Journal of manpower (2016), 37(7), 1154-1171
The Evolution of Immigration and Asylum Policy in Luxembourg: Insights from Impala;
in Critical Quarterly for Legislation and Law (2016), 99(2), 132-154
Moving Parts: Immigration Policy, Internal Migration and Natural resource Shocks; ;
in CD Howe Institute Commentary (2016), (446),
2015
Measuring Immigration Policies: Preliminary Evidence from IMPALA; ; ; ; ; ; ;
in CESifo Economic Studies (2015), 61(3/4),
Dutch Disease and The Mitigation Effect of Migration: Evidence from Canadian Provinces; ;
in Economic Journal (2015), 152(589), 1574-1615
Dissecting Network externalities in International Migration; ;
in Journal of Demographic Economics (2015), 81(4), 379-408
Climatic Factors as Determinants of International Migration;
in Scandinavian Journal of Economics (2015), 117(2), 723-767
2014
The determinants of International Mobility of Students; ;
in Economics of Education Review (2014), 41(C), 40-54
2013
International migration, transfer of norms and home country fertility; ;
in Canadian Journal of Economics (2013), 46(4), 1406-1430
Network Effect in International Migration: Does Education Matter More than Gender?;
in Scandinavian Journal of Economics (2013), 115(2), 354-380
Skilled migration and the transfer of institutional norms;
in IZA Journal of Migration (2013), 2(9), 2-19
2012
Does the Canadian economy suffer from Dutch disease?; ;
in Resource and Energy Economics (2012), 34(4), 468-492
2011
Integration and Stock Market Co-Movement between Emerging Economies;
in Quantitative Finance (2011), 11(2), 299-312
A panel data analysis of the Brain drain; ;
in World Development : The Multi-Disciplinary International Journal Devoted to the Study and Promotion of World Development (2011), 39(4),
2010
The Dark side of global integration: increasing tail dependance; ;
in Journal of Banking and Finance (2010), 34(1), 184-192
2008
2007
The impact of central bank intervention on exchange-rate forecast heterogeneity; ;
in Journal of the Japanese and International Economies (2007), 21(1), 38-63
Do Central Bank Interventions increase exchange rate forecasts heterogeneity? New evidence from survey data; ;
in Journal of the Japanese and International Economies (2007), 21(1), 38-65
The Impact of Central Bank FX Interventions on Currency Components; ;
in Journal of Financial Econometrics (2007), 5(1), 154-183
Economic Integration and the Diversification of Regional Exports: Evidence from the Canadian-US Free Trade Agreement;
in Journal of Economic Geography (2007), 7(1), 93-111
Measuring International Skilled Migration: A New Database Controlling for Age of Entry; ;
in World Bank Economic Review (2007), 21(2), 249-254
Central Bank Intervention and Exchange Rate Volatility, Its Continuous and Jump Components; ; ; ;
in International Journal of Finance and Economics (2007), 12(2), 201-223
Size Matters: Central Bank Interventions on the Yen/Dollar Exchange Rate;
in Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles (2007), 49(1), 5-36
2006
Why do central bank intervene secretly? Preliminary evidence from the BoJ;
in Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money (2006), 17(3), 291-306
