Jacques Melitz
Heriot-Watt University
Contact Information
Telephone Number: +44(0)131 451 3626
Email Address: J.Melitz@hw.ac.uk
Homepage: http://www.sml.hw.ac.uk/jm123/
Department Fax Number: +44(0)131 451 3296
Jacques Melitz is a Professor of Economics. He worked for many years at the Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique (CREST) and as Professor of Economics at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. Since 1983, he has held visiting positions at Harvard and Princeton Universities, has consulted for the OECD, the European Commission, the Federal Reserve, the International Monetary Fund, and the Swedish Government Commission on Monetary Union. He was managing editor of the Annales de l'INSEE from 1977 to 1983, served a six-year term on the board of editors of the European Economic Review from 1991 to 1997, is currently on the editorial boards of the German Economic Review and the Open Economies Review, and has been a research fellow of the CEPR since 1986. He is the author of one book, the co-editor of three other books, and has published over 50 refereed articles and numerous chapters in edited works.
Current Research Interests
International Money and finance and international macroeconomics - most particularly, European issues connected with the European Monetary System and European Monetary Union.
Selected recent publications
Mélitz, J. (2008) "Language and Foreign Trade", European Economic Review, May, pp. 667-699.
Mélitz, J. (2008) "Trade Costs, Trade Balances and Current Accounts: An Application of Gravity to Multilateral Trade" Open Economies Review, DOI 10.1007/s11079-008-9082-8 (with Giorgio Fazio and Ronald MacDonald).
Mélitz, J. (2007) "The Impact of English Dominance on Literature and Welfare," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 64, pp. 193-215
Mélitz, J. (2007) "North, South and Distance in the Gravity Model," European Economic Review, May, pp. 971-991.
Mélitz, J. (2006) "Non-discretionary and Automatic Fiscal Policy in the EU and the OECD," in Servaas Deroose, Elena Flores, Alessandro Torrini and Paul Wierts, eds., Fiscal Surveillance in EMU: New Issues and Challenges, Palgrave.