Christopher GRIGORIOU

Contact

65 Bd François Mitterrand
63000 Clermont-Ferrand

+33(0).473.17.74.19

c.grigoriou@u-clermont1.fr

Position 

2007-
Maître de Conférence, CERDI-CNRS, Université d'Auvergne

2005-2007
Researcher at the Créa, Institut d'Economie Appliquée (Créa), Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.
Consultant - World Bank Institute - Washington DC, USA. "Trade Policy in landlocked countries: Central Asia".

Publications and Working Papers

 

“Working versus Schooling: the Impact of Social Expenditures”, with G. Rota-Graziosi, (Université d’Auvergne), Recherches Economiques de Louvain/ Louvain Economic Review (2008), 74(1), 33-52.
Working versus Schooling, LER2008

“Landlockedness, Infrastructure and transit arrangements: new estimates for Central Asian countries' trade”, 2007, World Bank Policy Research serie 4335 (a version co-authored with Céline Carrère is under revision in The Economics of Transition).
Landlockedness, Infrastructure and Transit Arrangements_wps4335

“Survival Convergence: Specification Matters”
Etudes et documents E2008.15, CERDI

“Relative prices and child mortality”,  with Patrick Guillaumont.
Etudes et documents E2008.14, CERDI

“Child Mortality under Chinese Reforms”, 2005, with Patrick Guillaumont, published in the China Economic Review, (2005), 16(4), 441-464.
Etudes et documents E2004.10, CERDI

“Why Do Education Expenditures Fail to Reduce Child Labor? Looking for an Optimal Composition of the Social Expenditures”, 2005, with Grégoire Rota-Graziosi,
Etudes et Documents N°2005.17, CERDI

“A dynamic function of survival: natural convergence and economic policy”, with Patrick Guillaumont,
Etudes et Documents N°2003.33, CERDI. 

Education 

 

 

Ph.D. Thesis (2005) - “Essays on Child Vulnerability in Developing Countries: the Impact of Economic Policy”.  CERDI-CNRS, Université d'Auvergne, France

Defended : on December 2nd 2005, with honours.
Supervisor : Professor Patrick Guillaumont
Jury:
• Giovanni Andrea Cornia (University of Florence)
• Christian Morisson (University of Paris 1)
• Martine Audibert (Université d'Auvergne, CERDI-CNRS
• Jean-Louis Combes (Université d'Auvergne, CERDI-CNRS)

M.Sc in Development and International Economics(1999-2000), with honours, CERDI-CNRS, Université d'Auvergne, France.

B.Sc and M.Sc in in Economics and Management (1997-1998) with honours. University of Bordeaux IV, France.