Eric MENGUS

Associate Professor

Economics and Decision Sciences

mengus@hec.fr
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Biography

Eric Mengus is an engineering graduate from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and earned a Ph.D. in Economics at Toulouse School of Economics in 2014.

His research focuses on macroeconomics and international finance and he works on various topics such as sovereign debt, international capital flows or household insurance. He teaches courses in macroeconomics for and on economics applied to Europe in the Grande Ecole Program. He previously was a researcher for the Banque de France.

Scientific articles

Working papers

Credibility and Monetary Policy

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2017

Forward Guidance and Heterogeneous Beliefs

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2017

A Tight Sufficient Condition for Recursive Formulation of Dynamic Implementation Problems

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2016

Southern Europe's institutional decline

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2016

The Signaling Effect of Raising Inflation

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2016

The Inequality Accelerator

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2015

Scientific articles

What Matters in Households’ Inflation Expectations?

Journal of Monetary Economics, September 2023, vol. 138, pp 50-68, (in coll. with P. ANDRADE, E. GAUTIER)

Endogenous Partial Insurance and Inequality

Journal of the European Economic Association, October 2020, vol. 18, n° 5, pp 2270–2314, (in coll. with R. PANCRAZI)

Forward Guidance and Heterogenous Beliefs

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2019, vol. 11, n° 3, pp 1-29, (in coll. with P. ANDRADE, G. GABALLO, B. MOJON)

Institutional Quality and Capital Inflows: Theory and Evidence

Journal of International Money and Finance, September 2019, vol. 96, pp 168-191, (in coll. with E. CHALLE, J. I. LOPEZ)

Working papers

Implementation Under Limited Commitment

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2021

Public Liquidity Demand and Central Bank Independence

Banque de France Working Paper , 2020

What Matters in Households' Inflation Expectations?

Centre for Economic Policy Research , 2020

Institutional Quality and Capital Inflows: Evidence and Theory

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2018

Education

  • Habilitation to conduct research in Economics, Sciences Po Paris - France
  • Doctorat en Sciences Economiques (Ph.D. in Economics), Toulouse School of Economics - France
  • M.Sc., Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées - France
  • Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Université Paris Sorbonne Lettres et Civilisations - France
  • M.Sc., Ecole Polytechnique - France

Academic appointments

Academic Responsibilities at HEC

  • 2020- Associate Professor HEC Paris
  • 2014-2020 Assistant Professor HEC Paris

Scientific Activities

Editorial activities

  • Reviewer, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Finance, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Growth, Review of International Economics, Macroeconomic Dynamics

    • Awards & honors

    • 2019 Prix du jeune chercheur en economie 2019 de la Fondation Banque de France pour la recherche
    • 2015 Prix d'economie de l'Academie des Sciences, Inscriptions Belles Lettres de Toulouse