Adrien Wicht

Faculty of Business and Economics

University of Basel

Peter Merian-Weg 6, 4052 Basel

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in International Economics at the University of Basel. My research interests lie at the intersection of macroeconomics, international economics, sovereign debt, and recursive contracts. I completed my PhD at the European University Institute in 2024, where I was supervised by Ramon Marimon and Alexander Monge-Naranjo.

Previously, I held visiting and research positions at the University of Pennsylvania, the European Stability Mechanism, and the Swiss National Bank. My work has been published in the Journal of International Economics and the Review of Economic Dynamics, and includes ongoing projects on sovereign debt, limited commitment, and moral hazard.

My current teaching includes courses on Advanced International Macroeconomics and International Money and Finance at the University of Basel.

You can find a full list of publications here

news

Aug 21, 2025	I am presenting “Risk Sharing and Risk Reduction with Moral Hazard” joint with Ramon and Luca at the 2025 World Congress of the Econometric Society in Seoul.
Aug 08, 2025	(Another) Paper Published in the Journal of International Economics
May 02, 2025	Paper Published in the Journal of International Economics

selected publications

Commitment in the Canonical Sovereign Default Model

Xavier Mateos-Planas, Sean McCrary, José-Víctor Ríos-Rull, and 1 more author

2025

Journal of International Economics

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  note = {Journal of International Economics},
  volume = {157},
  pages = {104120},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022199625000765},
  author = {Mateos-Planas, Xavier and McCrary, Sean and Ríos-Rull, José-Víctor and Wicht, Adrien},
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Seniority and Sovereign Default: The Role of Official Multilateral Lenders

Adrien Wicht

2025

Journal of International Economics

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  title = {Seniority and Sovereign Default: The Role of Official Multilateral Lenders},
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  journal = {Journal of International Economics},
  note = {Journal of International Economics},
  volume = {155},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022199625000546?via\%3Dihub},
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Making Sovereign Debt Safe with a Financial Stability Fund

Yan Liu, Ramon Marimon, and Adrien Wicht

2023

Journal of International Economics

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  title = {Making Sovereign Debt Safe with a Financial Stability Fund},
  author = {Liu, Yan and Marimon, Ramon and Wicht, Adrien},
  journal = {Journal of International Economics},
  note = {Journal of International Economics},
  volume = {145},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022199623001204},
  type = {publication},
}