Jean-Sébastien Fontaine

Senior Research Advisor, Bank of Canada

My research is about how fixed income, exchange rate and equity markets work, and how they connect to the broader economy. Recent work covers the economic determinants of long-term interest rates, the interaction between repo and spot bond markets, and the role of funding conditions for market liquidity.

I am a Senior Research Advisor at the Bank of Canada. I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from the Université de Montréal, and I was a Visiting Professor at McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management in 2023–2024.