The objective of the conference is to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers, and research scholars to present and exchange their research results on economic and financial decisions under risk, insurance markets and related public policies. It will be also a tribute to Professor Pierre Picard, an outstanding researcher of the field, who is Emeritus Professor at École polytechnique since September 2021.
This conference is organized as a workshop, based on plenary sessions held at ENSAE (Sep. 14) and Maison internationale (Cité internationale de Paris, Sep. 15), each presentation (12 in total) being made by a leading scientist. Presentations will represent the diversity of research on economic and financial decisions under risk, insurance markets and related public policies. All presentations will be made by invited speakers.
Date: September 14 and 15, 2023.
Participation to the conference is free, but registration is required. Please, click here to register.
Program of the conference
| Thursday, September 14 (ENSAE)- Amphi 200 | Friday, September 15 (Cité Internationale) - Salon Gulbenkian - Preyer | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:45am to 10:30am | Reception of the participants (coffee) | 9am | Reception of the participants (coffee) |
| 9:30am to 12:30pm | Morning session - Risk Theory | ||
| Rachel J. Huang (National Central University, Taiwan), A Simple Approach for Measuring Higher-Order Risk Attitudes | |||
| 10:30am to 12:30pm | Morning Session - Contract Theory | Arthur Snow (University of Georgia), A Complete Characterization of Downside Risk Preference | |
| Jean-Charles Rochet (Toulouse School of Economics), "Money and Taxes Implement Optimal Dynamic Mechanisms" | Richard Peter (University of Iowa), The many faces of multivariate risk-taking: Risk apportionment for desirable and undesirable attributes | ||
| François Salanié (INRAE & TSE), Competitive Nonlinear Pricing under Adverse Selection | |||
| 12:30pm to 1:30pm | Lunch | 12:30pm to 1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30pm to 3:30pm | Afternoon Session 1 - Public Policies | 1:30pm to 3:30pm | Afternoon Session 1 - Empirical Insurance |
| Enrico Biffis (Imperial College, London) , Short-lived gasses, carbon markets and climate risk mitigation | Georges Dionne (HEC Montreal), Consolidation of the US property and casualty insurance industry: Is climate risk a causal factor for mergers and acquisitions? | ||
| Christian Gollier (Toulouse School of Economics), Stress Discounting | Kili Wang (Tamkang University, Taiwan), Collusion between Retailers and Customers: The Case of Insurance Fraud in Taiwan | ||
| 3:30pm to 4pm | Coffee break | 3:30pm to 4pm | Coffee break |
| 4pm to 6pm | Afternoon Session 2 - Insurance | 4pm to 5pm | Afternoon Session 2 - Insurance |
| Pierre-Yves Geoffard (Paris School of Economics), Road traffic accidents in France: compensation for body injury in France | Michael Hoy (University of Guelph), New Safety Technologies and Vehicle Safety | ||
| Claude Fluet (Université Laval), Consumer Protection in Retail Investments: Are Market Adjusted Damages Efficient? | |||
PhD in economics: cohesion and multidisciplinarity
At the end of the year, the doctoral students in CREST’s economics cluster organized a series of seminars for first-year doctoral students.
Cohesion & multidisciplinarity
Cohesion between doctoral students is essential. It fosters collaboration, the exchange of ideas and mutual support, creating an environment conducive to learning. Peer solidarity allows to share experiences, solve problems in groups and develop crucial skills. By fostering a team spirit, the cohesion between doctoral students contributes to their personal development and success in their doctoral studies.
These seminars provide another opportunity for first-year doctoral students to present their research. They highlight the theme of their research, as well as the specific questions they are tackling, and the methodology envisaged throughout their doctorate.
CREST doctoral students and researchers are invited to take in these seminars, where their experience in presenting their research enables young doctoral students to practice presenting their project clearly and concisely to people outside the field, thus providing a fresh and stimulating perspective.
The sessions also facilitate the establishment of links with researchers working in similar fields, giving PhD students the opportunity to obtain advice based on the experience of these researchers.
By emphasizing multidisciplinary within the same cluster, these seminars encourage doctoral students to benefit from reflections from the literature and approaches from other fields of research within CREST. This approach stimulates multidisciplinary reflection, enriching the research work of each student.
List of presentations
| Camille Boissel | Heterogeneous responses to labour policy |
| Sébastien Cerles | A model of advertising |
| Aurélien Frot | Job search biases in the data |
| Gaëtan Menard | Productivity in health economics |
| Clément Montes | A model of economic sanctions |
| Théo Roudil-Valentin | Corporate taxation following shocks |
| Pedro Vergara Merino | Econometrics of randomized experiment: theory and simulation |
| Vincent Verger | Natural Language Processing applied to political economy |
| Yiyun Zheng | A model of platforms and reputation |
PhD in economics: cohesion and multidisciplinarity
At the end of the year, the doctoral students in CREST’s economics cluster organized a series of seminars for first-year doctoral students.
Cohesion & multidisciplinarity
Cohesion between doctoral students is essential. It fosters collaboration, the exchange of ideas and mutual support, creating an environment conducive to learning. Peer solidarity allows to share experiences, solve problems in groups and develop crucial skills. By fostering a team spirit, the cohesion between doctoral students contributes to their personal development and success in their doctoral studies.
These seminars provide another opportunity for first-year doctoral students to present their research. They highlight the theme of their research, as well as the specific questions they are tackling, and the methodology envisaged throughout their doctorate.
CREST doctoral students and researchers are invited to take in these seminars, where their experience in presenting their research enables young doctoral students to practice presenting their project clearly and concisely to people outside the field, thus providing a fresh and stimulating perspective.
The sessions also facilitate the establishment of links with researchers working in similar fields, giving PhD students the opportunity to obtain advice based on the experience of these researchers.
By emphasizing multidisciplinary within the same cluster, these seminars encourage doctoral students to benefit from reflections from the literature and approaches from other fields of research within CREST. This approach stimulates multidisciplinary reflection, enriching the research work of each student.
List of presentations
| Camille Boissel | Heterogeneous responses to labour policy |
| Sébastien Cerles | A model of advertising |
| Aurélien Frot | Job search biases in the data |
| Gaëtan Menard | Productivity in health economics |
| Clément Montes | A model of economic sanctions |
| Théo Roudil-Valentin | Corporate taxation following shocks |
| Pedro Vergara Merino | Econometrics of randomized experiment: theory and simulation |
| Vincent Verger | Natural Language Processing applied to political economy |
| Yiyun Zheng | A model of platforms and reputation |
CREST Conference on Risk & Insurance, 14-15 september 2023
The objective of the conference is to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers, and research scholars to present and exchange their research results on economic and financial decisions under risk, insurance markets and related public policies. It will be also a tribute to Professor Pierre Picard, an outstanding researcher of the field, who is Emeritus Professor at École polytechnique since September 2021.
This conference is organized as a workshop, based on plenary sessions held at ENSAE (Sep. 14) and Maison internationale (Cité internationale de Paris, Sep. 15), each presentation (12 in total) being made by a leading scientist. Presentations will represent the diversity of research on economic and financial decisions under risk, insurance markets and related public policies. All presentations will be made by invited speakers.
Date: September 14 and 15, 2023.
Participation to the conference is free, but registration is required. Please, click here to register.
Program of the conference
| Thursday, September 14 (ENSAE)- Amphi 200 | Friday, September 15 (Cité Internationale) - Salon Gulbenkian - Preyer | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:45am to 10:30am | Reception of the participants (coffee) | 9am | Reception of the participants (coffee) |
| 9:30am to 12:30pm | Morning session - Risk Theory | ||
| Rachel J. Huang (National Central University, Taiwan), A Simple Approach for Measuring Higher-Order Risk Attitudes | |||
| 10:30am to 12:30pm | Morning Session - Contract Theory | Arthur Snow (University of Georgia), A Complete Characterization of Downside Risk Preference | |
| Jean-Charles Rochet (Toulouse School of Economics), "Money and Taxes Implement Optimal Dynamic Mechanisms" | Richard Peter (University of Iowa), The many faces of multivariate risk-taking: Risk apportionment for desirable and undesirable attributes | ||
| François Salanié (INRAE & TSE), Competitive Nonlinear Pricing under Adverse Selection | |||
| 12:30pm to 1:30pm | Lunch | 12:30pm to 1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30pm to 3:30pm | Afternoon Session 1 - Public Policies | 1:30pm to 3:30pm | Afternoon Session 1 - Empirical Insurance |
| Enrico Biffis (Imperial College, London) , Short-lived gasses, carbon markets and climate risk mitigation | Georges Dionne (HEC Montreal), Consolidation of the US property and casualty insurance industry: Is climate risk a causal factor for mergers and acquisitions? | ||
| Christian Gollier (Toulouse School of Economics), Stress Discounting | Kili Wang (Tamkang University, Taiwan), Collusion between Retailers and Customers: The Case of Insurance Fraud in Taiwan | ||
| 3:30pm to 4pm | Coffee break | 3:30pm to 4pm | Coffee break |
| 4pm to 6pm | Afternoon Session 2 - Insurance | 4pm to 5pm | Afternoon Session 2 - Insurance |
| Pierre-Yves Geoffard (Paris School of Economics), Road traffic accidents in France: compensation for body injury in France | Michael Hoy (University of Guelph), New Safety Technologies and Vehicle Safety | ||
| Claude Fluet (Université Laval), Consumer Protection in Retail Investments: Are Market Adjusted Damages Efficient? | |||
IP Paris Nobel Lecture in Economics – Jan 16 2022, 12:15pm
The lecture will be given by Olivier Loisel, Julien Prat and Giovanni Ricco
The department of Economics of IP Paris is honoured to invite you to a Nobel Prize in Economics hybrid lecture, open to all, on the 16th of January 2023 from 12:15pm to 1:45pm to present the contributions of this year’s three recipients “for research on banks and financial crises”:
- Ben S. Bernanke
- Douglas W. Diamond
- Philip H. Dybvig
The lecture will be given by Olivier Loisel (CREST & ENSAE), Julien Prat (CREST-X) and Giovanni Ricco (soon CREST-X).
It will be accessible to a broad audience of researchers and students.
The lecture will be in a hybrid format from both Amphi 200 in the ENSAE building and online on Zoom.
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92507835603?pwd=elRhNjMwbk1rMXRpZ0dEeTdzZXhmUT09
We are very much looking forward to seeing you!
PhD Day – Wednesday October 5th, 2022
The CREST is happy to announce that the 2022 PhD Day will take place on Wednesday October 5th at the Amphi 250.
The morning session will gather all faculties and PhD students with a welcome speech by the CREST’s direction and presentations of the new members’ research topics and interests. We warmly invite every faculty members to join this session!
A friendly lunch is planned to meet and chat with other participants.
The afternoon will be dedicated to PhD students: professors and administrative staff members will present various topics related to pursuing a PhD at CREST.
Detailed program of the day:
09:45 – Arrival, Amphi 250
10:00 – Morning session:
10:00 Welcome speech and presentation of the CREST (A. Dalayan, G. Hollard & T. Arrif)
10:30 Introduction of the new faculties and PhD students
12:00 Group picture
12:30 – Lunch, Grand Hall
14:00: Afternoon session:
14:00: Pursuing a PhD at CREST (T. Vergé)
14:20: Administrative support for research
14:30: Prevention at work (E. Taugourdeau)
14:45: PhD Student Representation and Rights (F. Cartellier)
15:00: Interdisciplinary seminar (M. Mugnier)
15:10: Teaching during the PhD
15:30: Tips for the PhD (A. Dalayan)
17:30 Closing Event, meeting point outside of the building
Please note that it is forbidden to eat or drink in the lecture hall.
Workshop on Political Economy
CREST – Ecole Polytechnique, IP Paris
March 24, 2022
Workshop on Political Economy
Organizers: Pierre Boyer, Alessandro Riboni, Germain Gauthier and Héloïse Clolery
Address: CREST 5, avenue Henry Le Chatelier 91120 Palaiseau
Room 3001
12:00 – 13:30: Welcome lunch
13:30-14:00: Allan Drazen (University of Maryland) “Voting with Your Brain, Your Gut, … or Simply Holding Your Nose?”
14:00-14:30: Benoit Schmutz (CREST) “Mobilization without Consolidation: Social Media and the Yellow Vests Protests”
14:30-15:00: Alessandro Riboni (CREST) “Sticky Spending, Sequestration and Government Debt”
15:00-15:30: coffee break
15:30-16:00: Héloïse Clolery (CREST) “Legislators in the Crossfire: Strategic Non-Voting and the Effect of Transparency”
16:00-16:30: Germain Gauthier (CREST) “Sex Crimes and the Me Too Movement”
16:30-17:00: coffee break
17:00-17:30: Oliver Vanden Eynde (PSE) “Bidding for roads”
17:30-18:00: Thierry Verdier (PSE) “Culture, Institutions and the Long Divergence”
End of the Workshop
“L’emploi et le territoire” a reçu le Prix AFSE 2022 du meilleur livre économique dans la catégorie poche
Félicitations à Francis Kramarz, Benoît Schmutz et Thomas Delemotte co-auteurs du livre “L’emploi et le territoire” édité aux Presses de Sciences Po. L’ouvrage a reçu le Prix AFSE 2022 du meilleur livre économique à destination des étudiants dans la catégorie poche.
Auteurs :
- – Francis Kramarz, Professeur d’économie associé à l’ENSAE et à l’École Polytechnique, chercheur affilié au CREST et à l’Institut des Politiques Publiques (IPP)
- – Benoît Schmutz, Professeur d’économie à l’École Polytechnique, chercheur affilié au CREST et à l’Institut des Politiques Publiques (IPP)
- – Thomas Delemotte, Doctorant en économie au CREST, affilié à l’Institut des Politiques Publiques (IPP)
Résumé :
Même s’ils sont parfois très proches de régions dynamiques, certains territoires subissent des taux de chômage élevés et ne parviennent pas à moderniser leur appareil productif. Comment expliquer une telle fragmentation spatiale ?
L’analyse économique montre, d’un côté, que les ménages sont fortement attachés à leur lieu de résidence et peu au fait des opportunités économiques existant ailleurs ; de l’autre, que les entreprises peinent à recruter lorsqu’elles investissent dans les zones délaissées. De nombreuses initiatives sont prises par les acteurs publics locaux et nationaux pour tenter de rapprocher travailleurs et emplois. Cependant, qu’il s’agisse de rendre les territoires plus attractifs ou d’aider à la mobilité résidentielle des ménages, force est de constater que ces politiques sont souvent peu efficaces. Et si, face à ce bilan globalement négatif, la solution consistait à agir sur l’offre immobilière ?
“L’emploi et le territoire” – Les Presses Sciences Po :
http://www.pressesdesciencespo.fr/fr/book/?gcoi=27246100751580#h2tabtableContents
Replay de la présentation de l’ouvrage par les auteurs à l’Institut Louis Bachelier :
- E-Matinale ILB – 2 juin 2021
On en parle dans la presse :
- La Librairie de l’Éco – BFM Buisiness – Mai 2021
IP Paris Nobel Lecture in Economics – Jan 10 2022, 12pm
© Nobel Media. Photo Alexander Mahmoud 2018
The department of Economics of IP Paris is honoured to invite you to a Nobel Prize in Economics hybrid lecture, open to all, on the 10th of January 2022 from 12pm to 2pm to present the contributions of this year’s three recipients:
- David Card “for his empirical contributions to labour economics”
- Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”
The lecture will be given by Xavier d’Haultfoeuille (CREST & ENSAE), Francis Kramarz (CREST & ENSAE), Roland Rathelot (CREST & ENSAE) and Pauline Rossi (CREST & X).
The lecture documents are available here:
- David Card
- Angrist’s and Imbens’ contributions to applied economics
- (Some of) David Card’s contributions to labour economics
- Angrist and Imbens’ methodological contributions
The video recording of the leture is available on this link.
PhD Day – Wednesday October 6th, 2021
The CREST is happy to announce that the 2021 PhD Day will take place on Wednesday October 6th 2021 (Amphi 250).
The morning session will gather all faculties and PhD students with a welcome speech by the CREST’s direction and an introduction of the new-coming PhD and professors. We warmly invite every faculty members to join this session!
The afternoon will be dedicated to PhD students with presentations of professors and administrative staff members regarding various topics related to pursuing a PhD at CREST.
The detailed program of the day is the following :
09:45 – Arrival, Amphi 250
10:00 – Morning session:
10:00 Welcome speech and presentation of the CREST (G. Hollard)
10:30 Introduction of the new faculties and new PhD students
12:00 Group picture
12:30 – Lunch, Grand Hall
14:00: Afternoon session:
14:00: PhD at CREST, in the Doctoral School IP-Paris or Hadamard (T. Vergé)
14:20: Representation of PhD Students (M. Mugnier)
14:30: Teaching (W. Leduc and F. Perez)
14:50: Mental Health (A. Dalayan)
15:10: Workplace Well-being (E. Taugourdeau)
15:20: Tips and Advice (P. Boyer)
17:30 Closing Event, meeting point under the préau of ENSAE
We remind you that wearing a mask is required on all occasions except at lunchtime.
It is forbidden to eat or drink in the lecture hall.
Thank you for your understanding.