VASSELIN, Françoise

Françoise Vasselin is an Associate Professor of Economics specializing in monetary economics, crypto-asset markets, and blockchain-based financial systems. She regularly contributes to public debates on crypto-asset regulation and monetary economics, and has appeared in national and international media, including RTS, BFM Crypto, and Le Soir.
 

• Research interests

Monetary and Financial Economics
FinTech and Financial Innovation
International Economics
Information Economics and Digital Platforms
 

• Publications

Peer-reviewed international journal articles
Vasselin Françoise (2024). Blockchain for Migrants: Promoting Self-Sovereign Identity and Financial Inclusion, International Journal of Business Administration, Vol. 15, No. 4, 39-55.  https://doi.org/10.5430/ijba.v15n4p39. 
Vasselin Françoise (2020). The Competition between Cash and Mobile Payments: A Monetary Search Model Point of View, Bankers, Markets & Investors, No.160, 1-14, https://doi.org/10.54695/bmi.160.1.8.
Vasselin Françoise (2019). (with S. Lotz), A New Monetarist Model of Fiat And E‐Money. Economic Inquiry, 57(1), 498-514, https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12714. 
 

• Current research

Vasselin Françoise (2026). The Structure of Crypto-Asset Markets: A Supply–Demand Classification Framework with International Evidence (2013–2025), Working paper (Best Paper Award, CRC 2025).
 

• Policy and public economics articles (selected)

Vasselin Françoise (2026). La régulation des crypto-actifs crée de nouvelles incitations à investir, [Crypto-asset regulation creates new incentives to invest], The Conversation, forthcoming.
Vasselin Françoise (2025). Où placer les stablecoins parmi les cryptoactifs ?, [Where do stablecoins fit within the crypto-asset landscape?] The Conversation, July, https://theconversation.com/ou-placer-les-stablecoins-parmi-les-cryptoactifs-256663 
Vasselin Françoise (2020). Bitcoin et souveraineté monétaire, La vie des Idées, September, https://laviedesidees.fr/Bitcoin-et-souverainete-monetaire.html
 

• Books and edited volumes

Vasselin, Françoise (2025). Le marché des crypto-actifs. La Découverte, “Repères” series, April 2025, , ISBN-9782348084034.
Vasselin, Françoise (2024). Économie générale: Cours et applications.MA Éditions, “Enseignement supérieur” series, 9th edition, ISBN-13. 978-2747235891.
Vasselin, Françoise (2013). Économie - DCG (épreuve n°5). Éditions Eska, “Expertise comptable” series, 5th edition, ISBN-10. 2747220451.
 

• Working papers and research reports

Vasselin, Françoise (2024). Crypto-Asset Market: Classification, Composition, and Competition. Preprint, SSRN (Cryptocurrency Research eJournal), 5(5). https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5048914  
Vasselin, Françoise (2007). Les fondements économiques de la gratuité des biens et services informationnels. Cahiers de la Maison des Sciences Économiques.
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00194677 
Vasselin, Françoise (2004). Production de connaissances : approches en termes de processus de valorisation économique. Cahiers de la Maison des Sciences Économiques. https://ideas.repec.org/p/mse/wpsorb/r04037.html
 

• Academic responsibilities

Program Director for the Globalization and International Trade (GIT) track within the master’s program Management and International Trade (MCI), at Master’s level (Years 1 and 2)
Elected member of the Research Evaluation Committee (Commission d’évaluation de la recherche), Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC).
 

• Awards and distinctions

Best Paper Award, Research in International Business and Finance (Elsevier), Cryptocurrency Research Conference 2025, Athens, September 2025.
PhD Thesis Award, University of Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas, for the dissertation Adoption and Usage of E-Money: Monetary Search Models, September 2017.
 

• Teaching

Courses taught in English
Since 2020: FinTech (Master’s level, Year 1) 
Since 2020: International Monetary Economics (Master’s level, Year 1)
Since 2017: International Financial Markets (Master’s level, Year 2)
2020-2025: Final Business Report (Master’s level, Year 2)
2020-2024: International Trade in Raw Materials (Master’s level, Year 1)
2012–2014 International Economics (Bachelor’s level, Year 1)

Courses taught in French
Since 2007: Microeconomics and Macroeconomics (Bachelor’s level, Year 1)