Rate My Professor Alaïs Martin-Baillon

Alaïs Martin-Baillon is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Social Sciences Division at New York University Abu Dhabi, a tenure-track position she assumed in 2023. She holds a PhD in Economics from Sciences Po, completed in 2021 under the supervision of Xavier Ragot, and an MSc in Economics (APE) from the Paris School of Economics in 2017. Prior to her current role, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Copenhagen from 2022 to 2023, served as a Temporary Lecturer at Sciences Po in 2021, and is a research affiliate with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). She has earned distinctions including a Visiting Scholar position at the Banque de France in 2025, a Fellowship from Banque de France and Sciences Po in 2024, and a Sciences Po Doctoral School Scholarship in 2020. At NYU Abu Dhabi, she lectures on Intermediate Macroeconomics and Master's-level Macroeconomics, and contributes to academic events through program committees for the Econometric Society Asia Meeting at NYUAD (2025) and the WE ARE IN Macroeconomics and Finance Conference (2024).

Martin-Baillon's research centers on macroeconomics and firm dynamics, with focuses on monetary policy, redistribution through fiscal and monetary policy interactions, heterogeneous agents models, firm heterogeneity, and corporate fiscal policy. Her notable publications include "Should monetary policy care about redistribution? Optimal fiscal and monetary policy with heterogeneous agents," co-authored with François Le Grand and Xavier Ragot and accepted in the Review of Economic Studies (initial version 2018), and the book "Helicopter money: beyond myth and magic," co-authored with Florin Bilbiie and Gilles Saint-Paul (Cepremap Collection, Rue d’Ulm Edition). Key working papers include "Heterogeneous Firm Expectations and Misallocation" with Erwan Gautier and Paul Hubert (CEPR Discussion Paper 20944, December 2025), her job market paper "When should we tax firms? Optimal corporate taxation with firm heterogeneity," and "Firms’ Marginal Propensities to Invest."