The Foundation provides sponsorship, on behalf of the Banque de France, for research in monetary, financial and banking economics. It encourages and supports independent research projects in its main areas of interest.
The Foundation organises events such as seminars, workshops and conferences to disseminate research and encourage the cross-fertilisation of ideas.
The Foundation’s sponsorship initiatives include grants for research in monetary, financial or banking economics, the hosting of visiting scholars and the provision of funding for research conferences and associations.
The Foundation supports promising researchers and awards prizes for the best young researcher and best doctoral thesis in the field of economics.
The prize rewards a thesis in monetary, financial or banking economics, defended in France. The candidate theses are evaluated by a jury composed by the Banque de France Foundation and the AFSE Steering Committee. The prize is usually awarded at the annual AFSE Congress, as well as the AFSE PhD award.
The Monetary, Financial and Banking Thesis Prize of the Foundation Banque de France was awarded to :
Maxime Menuet, IRD, CERDI, for his thesis entitled : « Public Debt, Political Equilibrium, and Aggregate Instability »
The prize was awarded on the 18th of June 2019 by Guillaume Horny, treasurer of the Banque de France Foundation, at the 68th annual meeting of the AFSE.
The Monetary, Financial and Banking Thesis Prize of the Foundation Banque de France was awarded to :
Jeanne Commault, Université Paris-Saclay, for her thesis entitled : «Three Essays on Precautionary Saving and Consumption Decisions »
The prize was awarded on the 14th of May 2018 by François Villeroy de Galhau, president of the Banque de France Foundation, at the 67th annual meeting of the AFSE.
The Monetary, Financial and Banking Thesis Prize of the Foundation Banque de France was awarded to :
Oana Peia, ESSEC Business School, for her thesis entitled: «Four essays on finance and the real economy»
The prize was awarded on the 21st of June 2017 by Guillaume Horny, treasurer of the Banque de France Foundation, at the 66th annual meeting of the AFSE .
The Monetary, Financial and Banking Thesis Prize of the Foundation Banque de France was awarded to:
Thomas Lambert, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, for his thesis entitled: "Essays on the Political Economy of Finance"
The prize was awarded on the 28th of June 2016 by Guillaume Horny, treasurer of the Banque de France Foundation, at the 65th annual meeting of the AFSE.
The Monetary, Financial and Banking Thesis Prize of the Foundation Banque de France was awarded to :
Giorgiana-Denisa Banulescu, Université d’Orléans and Université de Maastricht for her thesis on: “Four Essays in Financial Econometrics »
The jury included:
The prize, amounting to EUR 3000 was awarded on 23 June 2015 by Gilbert Cette, deputy-director general, economics and international relations, at the 64th Congress of the French Economic Association (AFSE), Rennes, 22-24 June 2015
The Monetary Financial and Banking Thesis Prize of the Foundation Banque de France was awarded to :
Mouhamadou Sy, École d'économie de Paris, for his thesis on « Three Essays on Monetary Policy and Capital Flows in a Globalized World »
The jury included :
The prize, amounting to 3 000 €, was awarded on 18 June 2014, together with the thesis prize of the French Economic Association (AFSE) at its 63rd Congress Meeting in Lyon (https://afse.gate.cnrs.fr, 16-18 june 2014)
The Monetary, Financial and Banking Thesis Prize of the Banque de France Foundation was awarded to:
Jean-Edouard Colliard, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, for his thesis on "three essays on finance and bank microeconomics".
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The prize, amounting to EUR 3,000, will be awarded on 25 June 2013, together with the thesis prize of the French Economics Association (AFSE) at its 62st Congress meeting, 24-26 June in Aix-en-Provence.
The Monetary, Financial and Banking Thesis Prize of the Banque de France Foundation was awarded to the two following laureates ex-aequo:
Sophie Osotimehin, University Paris I, for her thesis: “Aggregate Fluctuations and Market Frictions: The Role of Firm and Job Flows”, under the supervision of Jean-Olivier Hairault, Paris School of Economics
Peter Pontuch, University Paris-Dauphine, for his thesis: “Explaining expected stock returns using corporate finance”, under the supervision of Gilles Chemla, Imperial College and CNRS/DRM
The prize, amounting to EUR 3,000, was awarded on 4, July 2012, together with the thesis prize of the Association Française de Sciences Économiques (AFSE) at its 61st Congress meeting.
The jury included:
The Tenth Monetary, Financial and Banking Economic Thesis Prize of the Foundation Banque de France was awarded to Ms Sophie Béreau (Catholic University of Louvain) for her thesis on "Non linear Exchange Rate Dynamics : From Short to Long Term". This thesis was supervised by Valérie Mignon (Université of Paris Ouest Nanterre and CEPII). The price, amounting 3 000 € was awarded on 9 September 2011, at the occasion of the 60th Annual Congress of the French Economic Association, jointly with the prize of the AFSE.
The jury was composed of:
The ninth Monetary, Financial and Thesis Prize of the Foundation Banque de France was awarded to Cristina Semenescu-Badarau (Laboratoire d’Economie d’Orléans) for her thesis on «Politiques macroéconomiques et disparités régionales dans la zone euro». This thesis was supervised by Patrick Villieu (Université d’Orléans). The price, amounting 3 000 € was awarded on 10 September 2010, at the occasion of the 59th Annual Congress of the French Economic Association, jointly with the prize of the AFSE.
The jury was composed of:
Thanks to all participants and congratulations to the prize winner !
The eight Monetary, Financial and Banking Thesis Prize of the Foundation Banque de France was awarded to Erwan Gautier (Banque de France) for his thesis on "nominal price rigidity : micro-econometric analysis of prices and wages ". The prize, will be awarded, jointly with that of the French Economic Association (AFSE) at the occasion at the 58th Annual Congress of the AFSE (10 and 11 september 2009).
The jury was composed of:
Thanks to all participants and congratulations to the prize winner!
The seventh Monetary and Banking Thesis Prize of the Foundation Banque de France for Economic Research was awarded to Guillaume Monarcha (University Aix-Marseille II) for his thesis entitled « L'analyse dynamique des structures de risque des Hedge Funds ». This thesis was supervised by professor André Cartapanis (IEP Aix en Provence).
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The jury of the Foundation’s Monetary and Banking Thesis Prize, which met at the University of Paris II on 13 September 2007, awarded the prize to Samuel Bates for his thesis entitled: « Effectivité des canaux de transmission de la politique monétaire » This thesis was defended at the University of Antillas and French Guyane, under the supervision of professor Fred Célimène. The prize, amounting to EUR 3,000 was handed to the winner on 20 September at the Annual Congress of the French Economic Association (AFSE).
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The Foundation Banque de France has awarded its fifth Monetary and Banking Thesis Prize of EUR 3,000 to Adrian Pop (University of Orléans) for his thesis entitled « La discipline de marché dans la régulation bancaire : le rôle de la dette subordonnée ».
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The jury of the fourth Monetary Thesis Prize of the Foundation Banque de France decided unanimously to award its two prizes to :
1st prize: 3 000 euros
Jean-Guillaume Sahuc
for his thesis : « Politique monétaire optimale en environnement incertain : le cas de la zone euro »
2nd prize 1 500 euros
Mohamed Safouane Ben Aïssa
for his thesis : « Dynamiques de l’inflation américaine autour des changements structurels : essais théoriques et empiriques »
The Jury was composed of:
The jury of the 2004 third Thesis Prize of the Foundation Banque de France for Economic Research decided unanimously to award the Prize to two joint winners, who will share the amount of EUR 3,000:
Stéphane Auray
« Consommation, persistance des habitudes et effets de la politique monétaire »
Olivier Loisel
« Four Essays on Macroeconomic Volatility and instability under Alternative Exchange Rate Regimes »
En outre, le jury a souhaité accorder à titre exceptionnel une mention spéciale en faveur d'un troisième candidat à qui est attribuée la somme de 1000 euros :
Grégory Levieuge
« Les banques centrales doivent-elles réagir aux mouvements des prix d'actifs ?
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The prizes were awarded on 4 February 2005.
The Foundation Banque de France has awarded its Monetary and Banking Thesis Prize 2003 of EUR 3,000 to Philippe de Peretti (University Paris I) for his thesis on: « Fondements microéconomiques de la monnaie : implications théoriques et empiriques pour quatre domaines de l’économie monétaire ».
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The Foundation Banque de France has awarded to Anne-Gaëlle Vaubourg (University of Orléans) the Monetary and Banking Thesis Prize of EUR 3,000 for her thesis « ESSAIS SUR L’ARCHITECTURE DES SYSTÈMES FINANCIERS : Analyse théorique et empirique du partage entre banque et marché ».
The Jury was composed of:
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