Research Interests:

• Economics of Risk and Time, Public Economics (focus: agriculture, environment, innovation), Experimental Economics.

Focus:

• Structural elicitation of preferences underpinning precaution
• Public policies under retarded risk or uncertainty resolution
• Socially efficient valuation of very long-term investments and of multivariate contexts

Current Position:

• INRAE Research Fellow (CRCN; full-time research position), UMR SMART, Rennes (F), 09/2011-

Previous Positions:

• Visiting Research Fellow, Toulouse School of Economics (LERNA), Toulouse (F), 09/2009-08/2011
• Senior Research Associate, Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM), School of Economics, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Sydney (AUS), 08/2008-08/2009

Education:

• Ph. D. Economics (Dr. rer. pol.), Dresden University of Technology (D), July 2008
  Thesis: Distorted Time Preferences and Structural Change in the Energy Industry. A Theoretical and Applied Environmental-Economic Analysis
  Committee: Marco Lehmann-Waffenschmidt (advisor), Christian von Hirschhausen, Malte Faber
• M. A. Economics (Diplom-Volkswirt), University of Heidelberg (D), 2001
• B. Sc. Mathematics (Vordiplom), University of Heidelberg (D), 2001
• Courses in Economics, Bachelor and Master level, University of Quebec at Montreal (CAN), 1998-1999
• B. A. Economics (Vordiplom), University of Konstanz (D), 1998

Teaching Experience:

• "Economics of Uncertainty and Information," lecture at Master level. Department of Economics, University of Rennes 1, 2012-2017 (5x)
• "The Economics of Climate Change and Carbon Markets" (ECON5121), graduate course. School of Economics, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, 2009
• Graduate seminar "Selected Topics in Environmental Economics," supervision of term papers. Department of Economics, Dresden University of Technology, 2008
• "Macroeconomics," 2nd year undergraduate tutorial. Alfred-Weber Institute for Economics, University of Heidelberg, 2002-2004 (10x)

Grants:

• INRA, Research Department SAE2, young researcher's grant: Regulating Spatial Environmental Externalities under Uncertainty, €10,000, 01-12/2012
• Australian Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts; Commonwealth Environmental Research Facilities; Environmental Economics Research Hub: Modelling the Potential Interactions between the Australian 20% Renewable Energy Target and the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme within the Australian National Electricity Market, research grant, AU$ 90,000 (with Regina Betz, Iain MacGill), 01/2009-06/2010

Invited Seminars (upcoming included):

• "Robustness of Inferences in Risk and Time Experiments to Lifecycle Asset Integration," CREM, Rennes, BETA, Strasbourg, 02/2020, CEE-M, Montpellier, 07/2020, IRISK, Lille, 06/2022, TBS, Toulouse, 09/2022, GATE, Lyon, 06/2025
• "Consumption Smoothing and Precautionary Saving under Recursive Utility," EMLYON Business School, Lyon, 03/2016
• "Consumption Smoothing and Precautionary Saving in Experiments," MRIC, LMU Munich, 02/2014
• "Prudential Saving: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment," UMR SMART, Rennes, 05/2011, LEF, Nancy, 03/2012, CREM, Rennes, 06/2013
• "Distorted Time Preferences and Time-to-Build in the Transition to a Low-Carbon Energy Industry" (in French), Séminaire Jeunes d'EconomiX, University of Paris-West Nanterre-La Défense, 04/2011
• "Distorted Time Preferences and Time-to-Build in the Transition to a Low-Carbon Energy Industry," Paris Environmental and Energy Economics Seminar, 01/2011
• "Technology Choice and Time of Transition in the German Electricity Industry under Environmental and Technology Policy: A New Case for Nuclear Power?" Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, 01/2007

Conference and Workshop Presentations (upcoming included):

• 2025: Netspar International Pension Workshop 2025: "Robustness of Inferences in Risk and Time Experiments to Lifecycle Asset Integration"


• 2024: CEAR/MRIC Behavioral Insurance Workshop: "Measuring Risk Substitution Rates for Additive and Multiplicative Risk Increases"; Journées Internationales du Risque: "The Risk Substitution Rate as a Fundamental Risk Aversion Measure" and "Self-Protection with Multiplicative Foreground and Background Risks"


• 2023: Workshop on Economics and Psychology of Climate Policy (invited): "Pigou Regulation under Delayed Uncertainty Resolution"; European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists: "Self-Protection and Self-Insurance with Multiplicative Foreground and Background Risks"; French Economic Association: "Comparing Utility Derivative Premia under Additive and Multiplicative Risks"


• 2022: CEAR/MRIC Behavioral Insurance Workshop: "Self-Protection and Self-Insurance with Multiplicative Foreground and Background Risks"; Foundations of Utility and Risk: "Robustness of Inferences in Risk and Time Experiments to Lifecycle Asset Integration"; Journées Internationales du Risque: "Comparing Utility Derivative Premia under Additive and Multiplicative Risks"; Journées de Microéconomie Appliquée: "Robustness of Inferences in Risk and Time Experiments to Lifecycle Asset Integration"; 1st MUSEES Conference: "Comparing Utility Derivative Premia under Additive and Multiplicative Risks"


• 2021: Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society: "Robustness of Inferences in Risk and Time Experiments to Lifecycle Asset Integration"; French Economic Association: "Robustness of Inferences in Risk and Time Experiments to Lifecycle Asset Integration"


• 2020: ASSA: "Robustness of Inferences in Risk and Time Experiments to Lifecycle Asset Integration"


• 2018: CEAR/MRIC Behavioral Insurance Workshop: "Robustness of Experimental Risk and Time Preferences to Intertemporal Asset Integration"; European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists: "Robustness of Experimental Risk and Time Preferences to Intertemporal Asset Integration"


• 2017: European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists: "Comparative Precautionary Saving under Higher-Order Risk and Recursive Utility"


• 2016: CEAR/MRIC Behavioral Insurance Workshop: "Comparative Precautionary Saving under Higher-Order Risk and Recursive Utility"; Journées Internationales du Risque: "Precautionary Saving in the Large: nth-Degree Deteriorations in Return Risk" and "Precautionary Saving in the Large under Higher-Order Risk and Recursive Utility"; Risk Theory Society: "Consumption Smoothing and Precautionary Saving under Recursive Preferences"


• 2015: French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists: "Precautionary Motives Under Multiple Instruments"; European Economic Association: "Precautionary Motives Under Multiple Instruments"; World Risk and Insurance Economics Congress: "Consumption Smoothing and Precautionary Saving under Recursive Preferences"; French Economic Association: "Consumption Smoothing and Precautionary Saving under Recursive Preferences" and "Precautionary Motives Under Multiple Instruments"; Risk Theory Society: "Precautionary Motives Under Multiple Instruments"; Finnish Economic Association: "Consumption Smoothing and Precautionary Saving under Recursive Preferences"


• 2014: European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists: "Precautionary Motives Under Multiple Instruments"; Foundations and Applications of Utility, Risk and Decision Theory: "Consumption Smoothing and Precautionary Saving in Experiments"


• 2013: Workshop 'Uncertainty and Public Decision': "Consumption Smoothing and Precautionary Saving in Experiments"; CEAR/MRIC Workshop IV 'Behavioral Insurance': "Consumption Smoothing and Precautionary Saving in Experiments"; INRA-SAE2 Young Researcher Days: "Environmental Policy under Delayed Uncertainty Resolution" European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists: "Term Structure of Discount Rates under Multivariate s-Ordered Consumption Growth"; French Finance Association: "Term Structure of Discount Rates under Multivariate s-Ordered Consumption Growth"; SFB 649 Workshop 'Risk Preferences and Decisions under Uncertainty': "Prudential Saving: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment."


• 2012: European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists: "Term Structure of Discount Rates under Multivariate s-Ordered Consumption Growth"; Foundations and Applications of Utility, Risk and Decision Theory: "Prudential Saving: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment" and "Term Structure of Discount Rates under Multivariate s-Ordered Consumption Growth"; CEAR Workshop 'Behavioral Risk Management': "Prudential Saving: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment."


• 2011: Southern Economic Association: "Regulating Spatial Environmental Externalities under Uncertainty"; Association of Southern European Economic Theorists: "Term Structure of Discount Rates under Multivariate s-Ordered Consumption Growth"; European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists: "Prudential Saving: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment"; Econometric Society European Meeting: "Prudential Saving: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment"; Doctoral Meeting at Montpellier: "Prudential Saving: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment."


• 2010: Southern Economic Association: "Prudential Saving: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment" and "Term Structure of Discount Rates under (s1,s2)-Ordered Consumption Growth"; Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association): "Learning and Forgetting in the PV Cell Industry" and "Initial Allocation Effects in Permit Markets with Bertrand Output Oligopoly"; European Economic Association: "The Macroeconomic Evidence for Prudence"; World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists: "Initial Allocation Effects in Permit Markets with Bertrand Output Oligopoly."


• 2009: Southern Economic Association (SEA); European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE); Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES).


• 2008: Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association, VfS); 3rd Atlantic Workshop on Energy and Environmental Economics, La Toja (E); AFSE Thematic Meeting "Frontiers in Environmental Economics," Toulouse School of Economics (LERNA); 3rd Conference on Energy Economics and Technology, Dresden University of Technology (D).


• 2007: Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association, VfS); European Economic Association (EEA); European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET); European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE); European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE) (2x).


• 2006: "Neo-Schumpeterian Economics. An Agenda for the 21st Century," Trest (CZ).

Ad-Hoc Refereeing:

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Annals of Economics and Statistics, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Eastern Economic Journal, Economic Modelling, Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Management Science, Mathematical Social Sciences, Theory and Decision.

References:

Available upon request.

Languages:

• Fluent in English and French, native in German

Citizenships:

• Germany, France

Miscellaneous:

• Concert extracts with the EJML choir, Rennes: Orff, Miskinis
• Some performances with the Philharmonie de Toulouse (extracts): Dvorak, Granados, R. Strauss, Bizet-1/Bizet-2
• My 'home' chamber orchestra: Collegium Musicum Oberndorf