Daniel Danau
UFR SEGGAT, Université de Caen
Email: daniel.danau@gmail.com
Born: 7th October 1975, Romania
Professional address
Esplanade de la Paix
14032, Caen, France
Tel : +33 (0)2 31 56 54 26
Current position and affiliation
Since Sept. 2011: "Maitre de conferences", Universite de Caen (Normandy, France), with an interruption of the activity between December 2012 and November 2013
Titles
December 2017: HDR (Habilitation de diriger la recherche), Université de Caen Normandie
Visiting positions
November-December 2017: Visiting scholar at Università degli Studi di Macerata, Macerata (Italy)
September-December 2015, 2021-2023 Visiting professorship at Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", Rome (Italy)
Past positions
2011: Lecturer, Bournemouth University
2009-11: May Wong Smith Research fellow (postdoctoral) at University of St Andrews (UK)
2008-09: Teaching fellow (ATER) at Université de Cergy-Pontoise (France)
2007-08: Research fellow (postdoctoral) at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (US)
Research areas
Asymmetric information, Risk and Uncertainty
Grants for study, visiting and research
2018 - 2020: Prime d'encadrement doctoral et de la recherche (PEDR)
2017: Visiting fellowship, Università degli Studi di Macerata (Macerata)
2015: Visiting professorship, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" (Rome)
2007: Robert Solow fellowship, Centre Cournot (Paris), for visiting the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton)
2003-2007: Allocation de recherche, Université Lyon 2
Studies
2003-07: Ph.D. in Economics at Université Lyon 2 (France)
Thesis title: "The role of market uncertainty in infrastructure projects. A theoretical analysis"
2002-03: Master in Economic Theory and Econometrics, Université Toulouse 1 (France)
2001-02: University diploma in Microeconomics of Institutions, Université Toulouse 1 (France)
1994-08: Bachelor in Finance and Banking at Universitatea Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
Published papers
"Under/over-investment and early renegotiation in public-private partnerships", with A. Vinella, Journal of Industrial Economics, (February, 2022)
"Prudence and preference for flexibility gain", European Journal of Operational Research, 2020
"A note on the optimal contracting with ex post private information under limited liablity", with A. Vinella, International Journal of Game Theory, 2019
"From fixed to state-dependent duration in public-private partnerships", with Annalisa Vinella, Journal of Economin Management & Strategy, 26, 2017, 636-660
"Public-private contracting under limited commitment", with Annalisa Vinella, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 17 (1), 2015, pp. 78-110 (special issue on Public-Private Partnerships)
"Capacity investment with dynamic operation and intertemporal budget balance", Journal of Public Economic Theory, 13 (2), 2011, pp. 217-253
"A note on fixed and variable-term contracts", Economics Bulletin, 29(2), 2009, pp. 964-975
Book chapter
On the financial structure and the contractual length of public-private partnerships, with A. Vinella, forthcoming in Picot, A., M. Florio, N. Grove and J. Kranz (Eds.), The Economics of Infrastructure Provision - The (Changing) Role of the State, The MIT Press
Working papers
"Contract law and Contract theory. A survey and some considerations" (March 2019)
"Sequential screening and the relationship bertween principal's preferences and agent's incentives", with Annalisa Vinella (new version, September 2018)
"Contract design in agency problems with non-monotonic cost and correlated information", with Annalisa Vinella
Referee activities
Bulletin of Economic Research; Economic Inquiry; Economics Bulletin; Fiscal Studies; International Review of Administrative Sciences; Journal of Institutional Economics; Journal of Public Economic Theory; Network and Spatial Economics; Review of Economic Studies; Small Business and Economics
Seminars (invited and internal)
2022 : Dipartimento di Economia e Diritto, Università degli studi di Bari
2019: BETA, Université de Lorraine, Nancy
2017: IAE, Université de Nantes
CREM, Université de Caen Normandie
2015: Economics Department, Universita degli studi di Tor Vergata, Roma
2014: Laboratoire Economie Quantitative Intégration Politiques Publiques Econométrie, Université Lille 3
2011: Centre de Recherche en Économie et Management (CREM), Caen and Rennes
2010: Department of Finance, University of Maastricht
EconomiX, Université Paris 10, Nanterre
School of Economics, University of Edinburgh (SIRE Forum for Young Researchers)
2009: School of Economics&Finance, University of St Andrews
Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique (CREST), Paris
Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Cergy, France
2008: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
2007: Laboratoire d'Economie des Transports, Lyon, France
Conferences and workshops
2023 : International Industrial Organisation Conference, Washington DC
2022 : Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design (organisée à Singapour, en ligne)
2019: Association of Public Economic Theory, Strasbourg
2018: SIDE - ISLE Conference on Law and Economics, Lecce
2017: Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet, Marseille
Association of Public Economic Theory, Paris
2016: World Congress of Game Theory Society, Maastricht
Conference of European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, Lisbon
2015: Association of Public Economic Theory, Luxemburg
Conference of European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, Munich
Workshop on Economics and Management of Public-Private Partnerships, Venice
2014: Conference of European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, Milan
2012: APET Workshop on Public-Private Partnerships, Brisbane
2008: Conference of European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, Toulouse
International Conference on Funding Transport Infrastructure, Paris
2007: Conference of European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, Valencia
World Conference on Transport Research, Berkeley
2006: Conference on Railroad Industry Structure, Competition and Investment, Madrid
Conference on Applied Infrastructure Research, Berlin
European Economic Association, Vienna
International Kuhmo Conference and Nectar 2 Meeting on Pricing, Financing and Investment in Transport, Helsinki
Real Options Conference, New York
2005: Association of Southern European Economic Theorists Conference, Crete
Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Geneva
Conference on Railroad Industry Structure, Competition and Investment, Stockholm
Teaching
2017- : Microeconomics, 2nd year of BA; Decision theory, 3rd year BA - Université de Caen Normandie
2017 : Introduction to The theory of incentives - Universita degli studi di Macerata, master level
2015 : Statistics, 2dn year of BA - Universita degli studi di Tor Vergata
2014-17: Corporate Finance, master of research - Université de Caen Normandie
2011-17: Contemporary Economics, 1st year of BA; Financial calculus, 2nd year of BA; Economics of Organisations, 3rd year of BA - Université de Caen Normandie
2010-11: Introduction to economics, 1st year of BA and Contemporary Economics, 2nd year of BA - Bournemouth University
2010-11: Microeconomics, 2nd year of BA - University of Saint Andrews
2009-10: Microeconomics, 2nd year of BA - University of Saint Andrews
2008-09: Statistics, 1st year of BA and Public Economics, 2nd year of BA - Université de Cergy-Pontoise
Academic responsibilities
Since 2019: Responsible of the master in Economics "Decisions et politiques publiques" at Université de Caen Normandy
2013; 2016-2020: Organisation of regular seminars at research laboratory CREM, Caen
2018-2020: Member of "Comité de département déconomie et de gestion" of the faculty SEGGAT, Université de Caen Normandie (elected)
Since 2019: Member of "Conseil dunité" of the research laboratory CREM (elected)
Since 2019: Member of "Conseil dUFR SEGGAT", Université de Caen Normandie (elected)
2017-2019: Responsible for students with handicape and high level sport students at faculty SEGGAT, Université de Caen Normandie
Languages
English, French (both fluent), Italian (spoken); Romanian (native tongue)
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