Biography
Sophie Piton is a Senior Research Advisor at the Bank of England and a member of the Centre for Macroeconomics. Her research interests include macroeconomics, productivity and growth.
She joined the Bank of England in 2018 after receiving her PhD from Paris School of Economics and previously worked at CEPII.
Sophie's Bank Underground blog posts
Three facts about the rising number of UK business exits - April 2024Profits in a time of inflation: some insights from recent and past energy shocks in the UK - August 2023
Booming entrepreneurship during the Covid-19 pandemic - June 2022
How economic integration fuels macroeconomic imbalances - August 2019
Is there really a global decline in the (non-housing) labour share? - August 2019
Sophie's selected academic publications
Firms’ Margins Behaviour in Response to Energy Shocks: Evidence from the UK with Ed Manuel and Ivan Yotzov, Economics Letters (2024)
Business Creation during COVID-19 with Saleem Bahaj and Anthony Savagar, Economic Policy (2024)
Economic Integration and Unit Labour Costs, European Economic Review (2021)
Revisiting the Global Decline of the (Non-Housing) Labour Share with Germán Gutiérrez, American Economic Review: Insights (2020)
A European Disease? Non-tradable inflation and real interest rate divergence, CESifo Economic Studies (2017)