SPLE
Place Montesquieu 1/L2.08.07
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Clément Fontan
Professeur
Professeur
Clément Fontan is professor of European Economic Policy at UcLouvain and University of Saint-Louis Brussels. He is co-director of the journal Politique Européenne. His fields of specialization are: political economy, European studies, financial ethics, central banking and financial crises. He is the supervisor of the Phd thesis of Antoine de Cabanes He is scientific coordinator of the permanent research group « Regulation, markets, capitalisms » of the French Political Sciences Association.
His PhD thesis was defended in 2012 at Sciences-Po Grenoble under the supervision of Sabine Saurugger. He analyzed how the European Central bank extended its competences and influence during the Eurozone crisis. After teaching at Sciences-Po Lille (2012-2014), he led his post-doctoral research at the Center of Ethics (University of Montreal), the PACTE/CNRS laboratory for the H2020 EMUchoices project and the Financial Ethics Research Group (University of Göteborg).
He published in many scientific journals in French and English (cf. research section) and he is co-author of " "Do Central Banks serve the People" (Polity, 2018), translated in French (Raisons d'Agir 2019) and Korean. He often presents his research results in front of policymakers (Belgium Finance Minister, French National Bank, European Central Bank) and in media outlets such as La vie des idées, Mediapart, ou France Culture.
- Diploma
Year Label Educational Organization 2012 Docteur spécialité science politique Université de Grenoble
- Politiques économiques européennes LEUSL2031 https://uclouvain.be/cours-2018-LEUSL2031.html
- Fondements Economiques et monétaires de l'intégration européenne (USL-B)
- Economic & Monetary Union LEUSL 2104
- Courses
2021
Fontan, Clément ; Howarth, David. The European Central Bank and the German Constitutional Court: Police Patrols and Fire Alarms. In: Politics and Governance, Vol. 9, no.2, p. 241-251 (2021). doi:10.17645/pag.v9i2.3888.
2020
van ’t Klooster, Jens ; Fontan, Clément. The Myth of Market Neutrality: A Comparative Study of the European Central Bank’s and the Swiss National Bank’s Corporate Security Purchases. In: New Political Economy, p. 1-15 (2019). doi:10.1080/13563467.2019.1657077.
2020
Larue, Louis ; Fontan, Clément ; Sandberg, Joakim. The promises and perils of central bank digital currencies. In: Revue de la régulation, Vol. 28, no.4, p. en ligne (2020). doi:10.4000/regulation.18018.
2019
Fontan, Clément ; Saurugger, Sabine. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Preference Formation in France During the Eurozone Crisis. In: Political Studies Review, Vol. 17, no.4, p. 147892991986860 (2019). doi:10.1177/1478929919868600.
2019
Fontan, Clément. Contribution to the Symposium on “Financial Citizenship: Experts, Publics, and the Politics of Central Banking” by Anne-Lise Riles. In: Accounting, Economics, and Law: A Convivium, Vol. 1, no.1, p. 1 11 (2019). doi:10.1515/ael-2019-0017.
2019
Fontan, Clément ; Dietsch, Peter ; Claveau, François. Les banques centrales et la justice sociale. In: Éthique publique, Vol. 21, no.2, p. 1-23 (2019). doi:10.4000/ethiquepublique.4856.
2019
Saurugger, Sabine ; Fontan, Clément. The judicialisation of EMU politics: Resistance to the EU's new economic governance mechanisms at the domestic level. In: European Journal of Political Research, (2019). doi:10.1111/1475-6765.12322.
2018
Fontan, Clément. Frankfurt’s double standard: the politics of the European Central Bank during the Eurozone crisis. In: Cambridge Review of International Affairs, no. online, p. 1-21 (2018). doi:10.1080/09557571.2018.1495692.
2018
Fontan, Clément ; Carré, Emmanuel ; L’Oeillet, Guillaume. Theoretical perspectives on the new era of central banking. In: French Politics, Vol. 16, no. 4 (2018). doi:10.1057/s41253-018-0067-8.
2016
Fontan, Clément ; Claveau, François ; Dietsch, Peter. Central banking and inequalities : Taking off the blinders. In: Politics, Philosophy & Economics, Vol. 15, no.4, p. 319-357 (2016). doi:10.1177/1470594x16651056.
2016
Fontan, Clément. Une banque centrale au-dessus des nations ? Faire peser les intérêts nationaux au sein de la Banque Centrale Européenne. In: Revue française d'administration publique, Vol. 158, no.2, p. 491 (2016). doi:10.3917/rfap.158.0491.
2014
Fontan, Clément. L'art du grand écart : La Banque centrale européenne face aux dilemmes provoqués par la crise de la zone euro. In: Gouvernement et action publique, Vol. 2, no.2, p. 103 (2014). doi:10.3917/gap.142.0103.
2013
Fontan, Clément. Frankenstein en Europe : L'impact de la Banque centrale européenne sur la gestion de la crise de la zone euro. In: Politique européenne, Vol. 42, no.4, p. 22 (2013). doi:10.3917/poeu.042.0022.
2019
Peter Dietsch ; Francois Claveau ; Fontan, Clément. Les banques centrales servent-elles nos intérêts? , Raisons d'agir: Paris, 2019. 9791097084028.
2018
Fontan, Clément. Do Central Banks Serve the People?, Polity Press: Cambridge, 2018. 978-1-509-52577-5.
2022
Fontan, Clément. Central Banking and Inequalities: Old Tropes and New Practices. In: Kappes, S., Rochon, L.P. & Vallet; G. (eds)., Central Banking, Monetary Policy and Social Responsibility, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK: , 2022. 9781849807357 (Accepté/Sous presse).
2022
Fontan, Clément. The Euro Crisis: The Battle of Ideas. How to Address the Euro Crisis – and its Effects on European Integration. In: Sybille Munch, 'The EU at a crossroad. EU Policies after the Negotiations about the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027’, Edward Elgar : Cheltenham, UK:, 2022. 9781788111041 (Accepté/Sous presse).
2021
Fontan, Clément. Deux poids, deux mesures ? L’action de la BCE pendant la crise de la zone euro . In: Sabine Saurugger, Les politiques publiques dans la crise 2008 et ses suites, Presses de Sciences Po: Paris, 2021, p. 336. 9782724627008.
2020
Fontan, Clément ; Larue, Louis. Central Banking. In: Christian Borch and Robert Wosnitzer, Routledge Handbook of Critical Finance Studies, Routledge: Abingdon, 2020. 9781138079816.
2019
Fontan, Clément. Dépolitisation et (re)politisation des enjeux monétaires en Europe. Les politiques d’indépendance de la Banque centrale européenne. In: Bastien François, Antoine Vauchez, Politique de l'indépendance Formes et usages contemporains d'une technologie de gouvernement, Presses du septentrion: Paris, 2019, p. 20 - 40. 2757429485.
2019
Fontan, Clément ; De Cabanes Antoine. La Cour de Justice face à Gauweiler. La mise en récit de l’indépendance de la BCE. In: Antoine Bailleux, Elsa Bernard, Sophie Jacquot, Les récits judiciaires de l’Europ: concepts et typologie, Bruylant, 2019, p. 170 - 191. 280276487X.
2019
Fontan, Clément ; Caune Helene. Le choix de l’austérité pour faire face à la crise. Que reste-t-il aux États comme marge de manœuvre économique et sociale ?. In: Sabine Saurugger Simon Persico, Sauver l'Europe ? Citoyens, élections et gouvernance européenne par gros temps, Dalloz: Paris, 2019, p. 110 - 119. 224718958X.
2018
Fontan, Clément. La crise financière de 2007. In: Colin Hay Andy Smith, Dictionnaire d'économie politique, Presses de Sciences-Po: Paris, 2018, p. 123-134. 272462310X.
2018
Fontan, Clément ; Adrien Faudot. Monnaie. In: Colin Hay Andy Smith, Dictionnaire d'économie politique, Presses de Sciences-Po: Paris, 2018, p. 319-325. 272462310X.
2018
Fontan, Clément. Resisting in times of crisis: the implementation of European rigor plans in the Irish and Greek cases. In: Nikolaos Zahariadis and Laurie Buonanno, The Routledge Handbook of European Public Policy, Routledge: Londres, 2018, pp.349-356. 1138927333.
2018
Claveau, François ; Dietsch, Peter ; Fontan, Clément. The ethics of central banking. In: A. Lever & A. Poama, The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy, Routledge: London, 2018, p. 178-190. 9781315461724.