Jérôme Sgard holds a PhD in Economics from Université de Paris-X-Nanterre. Since 2008 is has joined Sciences-PO, as a Research Professor at the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI). Before that he had been was a senior researcher at CEPII, also in Paris, and an Associate-Professor at Université de Paris-IX-Dauphine. During the 1990s he worked on economic reforms in Eastern Europe and Russia (Europe de l’Est, la transition économique, 1997), and on financial crisis in emerging economies (see L’Economie de la Panique, 2002).
Since then his research interests have shifted to the architecture and crisis of markets as seen from the perspective of their micro-regulators: judges, arbiters, bureaucrats. This covers for instance the case of IMF policies vis-à-vis sovereign debts; private bankruptcies; or the development of early industrial policy in 18th century France. He is also starting a joint project on the early history of international commercial arbitration.
Teaching
- SciencesPo
Collège universitaire. Histoire économique: les institutions du capitalisme
PSIA : Global Economic Governance
PSIA : Reform Policies in Emerging Economies
Master ‘Governing the Large Metropolis’: Property Rights, Contracts and the Political Order.
Research interests
- IMF and the history of the second globalization (Sciences Po research grant)
- The invention of international commercial arbitration, 1891-1960 (with Claire Lemercier, research grant from ‘Droit et Justice’)
- Bankruptcies and the judicialisation of economc relations, 19th century en France
- The ‘Bureau de Commerce’ and economic policy making in Ancien Régime France (avec Eric Brousseau).