Presently, I am Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics from the University of Rennes 1, in France. I am also Research Fellow with CREM (Center for Research in Economics and Management), a CNRS team. In 2004, I created an experimental economics lab, the LABEX, that I currently manage with David Masclet.
I have also a blog about economics, especially about behavioral economics, expeconomics, where you can find some reflexions or ideas about economic behavior in the current life. I try to illustrate seriously our behavior, but in a funny mannner, as far as I can. Read it and do not hesitate to react (this blog is written in french).
If you want to join me, here you will find my mail.
Research activities
My research fields are basically behavioral economics with applications to transport economics, industrial economics and public economics. One key question of my research is about information impact concerning decision making processes for individuals or groups. As a method, I use very often experimental economics as you will see in my recent papers. More recently, I make some studies about experimental congestion in traffic. Here you can find a short cv.
Some recent publications (since 2006):
- Bougherara D., Denant-Boemont, L., and Masclet D. (2011), "Creating vs Maintaining Threshold Public Goods in Conservation Policies", Ecological Economics, 70(6), 1200-1210.
- Denant-Boèmont
L, Masclet D., Noussair C. A. (2011), “Announcement, Observation, and Honesty
in the Voluntary Contributions Game”, Pacific Economic Review, 16(2), 207-228.
- Denant-Boemont L. & Hammiche, S. (2010), "Flexibility of Individual Decision in a Real-Option Setting: An Experimental Study of Transport Choice", to be published, Journal of Intelligent Transport Systems: Technology, Planning, and Operations , 14 (3), 140-153.
- Masclet D,
Colombier N., Denant-Boèmont L., & Loheac Y. (2009), “Group and Individual
Risk Preferences: A Lottery-Choice Experiment with Self-Employed and Salaried
Workers”, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 70, 470-489.
- Colombier N., Denant-Boèmont L., Lohéac Y, Masclet D. (2008), « Une étude expérimentale du degré individuel et collectif d’aversion au risque », 185 (4), 89-101, Economie et Prévision.
- Bougherara D., Denant-Boèmont L. et Masclet D. (2008), « ‘Eviter le mal ou… faire le bien’ : gestion des biens environnementaux et politiques de développement durable - Une étude expérimentale », 59 (3), mai, 685-692, Revue Economique.
- Ziegelmeyer A., Koessler F., Boun My K. and Denant-Boèmont L. (2008), “Reducing Road Traffic Congestion through Public Information: An experimental investigation”, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy. Volume 42, Part 1, January 2008, pp. 43–82.
- Denant-Boemont L., P. Malgrange, D. Masclet et C. Montmarquette (2008), « Présentation générale », introduction du numéro spécial « économie expérimentale, outil d’aide à la décision », 182 (1), 1-7, Economie et Prévision.
- Denant-Boèmont L., Hammiche S. (2008), « Que vaut la flexibilité des choix individuels de transport ? Une étude de cas expérimental », 182 (1), 97-112, Economie et Prévision.
- Denant-Boèmont L. Masclet D, Noussair C. (2007), “Punishment, Counterpunishment and Sanction Enforcement in a Social Dilemma Experiment”, Symposium on Behavioral Game Theory, Economic Theory, 33 (1), October, 154-67.
- Colombier N., Denant-Boèmont L., Lohéac Y. and Masclet D. (2007), « Risk Aversion Incentives and Order Effects: A New Experiment with Self-Employed Workers”, Applied Economics Letters, September 2007.
- Gabuthy Y., Neveu M. and Denant-Boèmont L. (2006), “The coordination problem in a Structural Model of Peak Period Congestion: An experimental study”, June, Review of Network Economics, 5 (2), 273-299.
- Bonein A. and L. Denant-Boemont (2011) "Temptation, Commitment and Peer Pressure: A Laboratory Experiment", downloadable here.
- Denant-Boèmont L. and Hammiche S. (2009), "Downs-Thomson Paradox and Public Transit Capacity in the Laboratory", third draft, downloadable here .
Experimental projects currently in progress:
- "Time and Teams: An Experimental Study about Group Inter-temporal Choice" (with Youenn Loheac)
- "Self Control and Peer Pressure" (with Aurélie Bonein)
- "Snowball Effect in Traffic Congestion" (with Vivien Fortat)
- "Cultural Differences in Queing" (with Y. Funaki and V. Fortat)
- "Price of Public Transit and Downs-Thomson Paradox" (with Sabrina Hammiche)
Teaching activities
My main teachings relate to applied microeconomics (in particular transport economics), public economics and behavioral economics (experimental economics especially). In some of these courses, classroom games are used to illustrate theoretical analysis and to have some statistical data. Presently, my courses in the Department of Economics are the following:
- Economics of Risk and Uncertainty with Classroom Games, for students in applied mathematics for social sciences (MASS),
- Cost-Benefit Analysis,
- Transport Economics,
- Experimental Economics,
- Industrial Organization & Regulatory Economics,
- Transport Environmental Costs.