Jean-Charles Bricongne is currently Advisor to the Governors of Banque de France on artificial intelligence issues. He has been previously Deputy-Director in the Business Surveys and Microeconomic and Structural Analyses Department, and in the International Economics and Cooperation Department in Banque de France. He graduated from the Ecole Centrale Paris, from Sciences Po Paris and holds a PhD from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne about the links between financial and real economy. He previously worked as a seconded national expert on internal imbalances in the European Commission (DG ECFIN), especially on credit and housing. He was before counsellor of the General Director of Economics and Research, Head of a unit in charge of trade and competitiveness in Banque de France, and seconded expert on monetary and financial issues in the French statistical institute (INSEE). He has been a Senior Lecturer at Sciences Po Paris, and is currently Adjunct Professor in Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He is also an associate researcher in LEO (Laboratoire d'Economie d'Orléans). He has written on various topics in applied international economics, housing, migrations, and the use of datascience technics applied to economics. He has published in numerous journals, including in the Journal of International Economics, World Economy, the Scandinavian Journal of Economics and the Journal of Housing Economics.

Banque de France is the central bank of France.

Use of AI in a Central Bank: The Case of Banque de France

This presentation will shed light on following subject matters:
1. Banque de France innovative approach to experience AI
2. Banque de France strategy
3. Banque de France flexible and project base organisation
4. Some case studies:
a) The « augmented  supervisor »
b) Analysis of the impact of monetary surprises on exchange rates using AI
c) Tracking of economic activity with satellite data
5. Cherry on the cake : Project for an « Economic Datascience Society »