Romain Houssa holds a Ph.D. in International Economics from University of Leuven (Belgium). He currently serves as Associate Professor of Economics at UNamur (Belgium) where he undertakes his research within CRED (Centre de Recherche en Economie du Développement) and CeReFiM (Center for Research in Finance and Management). His research interests include the areas of Applied Macroeconomics, International Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics and Development Macroeconomics. Most of his work has been concerned with understanding the causes and welfare implications of macroeconomics fluctuations.